{"id":3277,"date":"2023-07-04T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:16:53","slug":"locked-up-and-left-behind-investigating-the-prison-education-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"Locked up and left behind: investigating the prison education gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Prison walls separate more than people, as where you stand in relation to those walls can also predict how likely you are to struggle with reading, writing, and speaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">The National Literacy Trust reports that 62% of people beginning a prison sentence will have a reading age of about 11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Meanwhile, at least 60% of children engaged with the youth justice system will have a language impairment, according to research by speech therapist Karen Bryan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Compare that to the rest of the population, where only 10% of people will have a language impairment (Speech and Language UK).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">So why do so many people in prison struggle with these skills?<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/life\/30062023-locked-up-and-left-behind-investigating-the-prison-education-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}