Tag: Christopher Zoukis
Social Justice Advocate Christopher Zoukis Interviews Transgender Federal Inmate about Healthcare Failures
PETERSBURG, Va. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Social justice advocate, author, and inmate, Christopher Zoukis, recently met with Sangye Rinchen, a transgender federal prison inmate incarcerated for bank robbery at FCI Petersburg - a medium-security federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia. What he learned was frightening.
Prison Reform and the US Economy: upwards of $60 billion a year can be saved simply by educating prisoners
PETERSBURG, Va. /eNewsChannels/ -- Most Americans don't consider prisons when lamenting scholarship reductions at their local college or higher taxes on gas when filling up at the pump. Maybe they should. According to Christopher Zoukis, author of the forthcoming 'Education Behind Bars' (ISBN: 978-1934597774; Sunbury Press, December 2011), upwards of $60 billion a year can be saved simply by educating prisoners.
Christopher Zoukis' new book 'Education Behind Bars' makes the case that all Americans should support education in our prison system
PETERSBURG, Va. /eNewsChannels/ -- Why should the American taxpayer care about people who are incarcerated in our prison system? Simple, it is a true cost-saving measure that should be discussed. In 'EDUCATION BEHIND BARS' (ISBN: 978-1934597774; Sunbury Press) author Christopher Zoukis makes the case for why all Americans should support education in our prison system. Most Americans do not realize that the United States could save upwards of $60 billion each year by simply educating prisoners.
