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Post by mikebook on Jul 10, 2005 23:54:04 GMT -5
You could go part time...ease into it...Not to start with 18 hours(6 Classes...I would dread that) and maybe start with 2 classes... But you are right about needed to stay with something...
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Post by sclcookie on Jul 10, 2005 23:56:17 GMT -5
1 class and books costs money. I hope inmate makes enough to take a class.
hugggz, Suzanne
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Post by mikebook on Jul 10, 2005 23:57:57 GMT -5
Yes. About $300 for the class I am taking at work in English Lit... Tutition and books are free to me but education costs $$$$$$ Ignorence is even more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Post by janet on Jul 18, 2005 16:07:54 GMT -5
Making education available for DR prisoners would be a superb idea. A GED should be available at no cost by correspondence. Many prisoners lack the inability to read and write and oftentimes other inmates are required to do this for them. Education is a right.
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Post by mikebook on Jul 18, 2005 18:31:57 GMT -5
The Dept. of Corrections in Texas has GED's for inmates and they are free. No need for correspondence schools. Education is not just a right. It is far more. It is the abliltiy to think, reason, write, and work in society. To make up one's own mind...
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Post by moghirl on Jul 19, 2005 2:17:37 GMT -5
I read a book recently ' Mr. Nice' by Howard Marks, a Welsh guy who served time in the States for importing cannabis in the late 80's. There's a photo of him receiving his GED certificate from one of the prison officials in Terre Haute, i think it was. Maybe these education courses are only available to the general inmate population ? BTW, Howard Marks was already a graduate, an Oxford Don, and extremely intelligent man. On his realease he went on tour as a one-man show, talking about his life experiences. I saw him in the Royal Court Theatre, 2002, in Liverpool, he was scintillating,
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