Evidence of Methods that have Worked

Source:

“Poverty & Prejudice: Breaking the Chains of Inner CityPoverty.” The California Prison and Rehabilitation System. Jon Aborn. Annie van den Toorn. John Hockin. ScottJordon. Man Nayvelt. Michael Finkelstein. Ethics of Development in a GlobalEnvironment. 26 July 1999. Web. 10 Mar 2015.

Summary:

This source describes how the prison systems were at the time, and talks about better uses for the money and time spent on prisons.  They think the money should be spent on education to prevent people from going to jail, and to stop prisoners from going back to jail through rehabilitation in prisons. 

Quality:

This source seems like it has good quality since it comes from Stanford University, which would be a credible source ("Poverty & Prejudice").  The sources that they used appear to be credible as well. Some of the information came from the LA times (Colvin, Richard L)(Morian, Dan).  Some of the information came from Daniel Karpowitz and Max Kenner (Karpowitz, Daniel. Kenner, Max).  Daniel Karpowitz and Max Kenner work to provide education to prisoners ("Who We Are.").  The information would still be relevant, even though it isn't recent, because instead of proposing ideas for the future they compared the present to the past and saw the relationships that already existed.

Issues:

There was little information about any of the authors available.

Key Words and Phrases:
Education as prevention, Rehabilitation, Recidivism, Prison

Quotes:

“We strongly believe that education and rehabilitation are critical to ensuring that these young criminals are given skills and confidence to succeed in society.”

“In New York, it costs $25,000 to incarcerate a prisoner for one year; educating a prisoner for one year costs only $2,500. Educating inmates adds only 10% to the costs and could potentially save the state millions of dollars in the future by preventing recidivism.”

Works Cited:

Colvin, Richard L. "Young Offenders Learn ABCs the Hard Way: Caged." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov. 1998. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Karpowitz, Daniel. Kenner, Max. "Education as Crime Prevention: The Case for Reinstating Pell Grant Eligibility for the Incarcerated." 1 Jan. 1998. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Morian, Dan. "Davis Offers Plan for $1 Billion of Surplus." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1999. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

"Who We Are." Bard Prison Initiative. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2015.