Tag: prison education
NY Times Bestselling Author Sam Harris Bestows Gift to Nation’s Prisons in partnership with Compassion Prison Project
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- In partnership with Compassion Prison Project, Sam Harris - neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and five-time New York Times best-selling author - has just donated his top-rated app, Waking Up, to ALL prisons in the United States.
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.
