Education for Liberation by Gerard Robinson, Elizabeth Englis... - 9781475847741

Education for LiberationThe Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond Americas Prisons\nAuthor(s): Gerard Robinson, Elizabeth English Smith, Newt Gingrich, Van Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781475847741, 978-1475847741\nSynopsis\nAlmost 650,000 men and women, approximately the size of the city of Memphis, TN, return home from prison every year. Oftentimes with some pocket change and a bus ticket, they reenter society and struggle to find work, housing, a supportive social network. Economic barriers, the stigma of a felony conviction, and mental health and addiction challenges make reentry a bleak picture, leading some to return to a life of crime. A Department of Justice study of 404,638 inmates in 30 states released in 2005, for example, identified that 68 percent were rearrested within 3 years and 77 percent within 5 years of release. \n\nEducation and workforce readiness programs mu.