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New Report on Effects of Prison Education
A research report sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) finds that, on average, inmates who participated in correctional education programs had 43 percent lower odds of returning to prison than inmates who did not.
About half of the approximately 700,000 individuals who leave federal and state prisons each year will be reincarcerated within three years.
The research by the RAND Corporation was funded by BJA. The findings indicate that prison education programs are cost effective.
A $1 investment in prison education translates into reducing incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during the first three years post-release, when those leaving prison are most likely to return.
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