{"id":12544,"date":"2010-09-20T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-20T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T22:32:23","slug":"this-is-how-failure-is-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/this-is-how-failure-is-created\/","title":{"rendered":"This is How Failure is Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 7 out of 10 prisoners is destined to return to prison after being released. &nbsp;Yet, when the chopping block returns, it is the programs that can go to reduce these figures that are the first to go from the prison budget. &nbsp;Take this <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/thousands-state-inmates-shut-out-classroom-4891\">report from California Watch showing that prisoners don&#8217;t have access to education<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fewer than one in every ten California inmates are enrolled in an educational program, despite a pledge by state officials to enhance rehabilitation efforts in order to cut recidivism and relieve prison overcrowding. An estimated 14,360 inmates were taking part in a variety of academic classes out of a total adult inmate population of 162,608, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oig.ca.gov\/media\/crob\/reports\/C-ROB%20biannual%20report%20September%2015%202010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report [PDF]<\/a> released last week by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oig.ca.gov\/pages\/c-rob.php\" target=\"_blank\">California Rehabilitation Oversight Board<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bigger problem is that it seems that some seats for potential students are even going unused. &nbsp;Meanwhile, education at the UC and CSU systems gets more expensive every year. &nbsp;The way we reduce our expenditures on prisons isn&#8217;t to cut anti-recidivism programs, it is too make sure that they work and that prisoners are using them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 7 out of 10 prisoners is destined to return to prison after being released. &nbsp;Yet, when the chopping block returns, it is the programs that can go to reduce these figures that are the first to go from the prison budget. &nbsp;Take this <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/thousands-state-inmates-shut-out-classroom-4891\">report from California Watch showing that prisoners don&#8217;t have access to education<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fewer than one in every ten California inmates are enrolled in an educational program, despite a pledge by state officials to enhance rehabilitation efforts in order to cut recidivism and relieve prison overcrowding. An estimated 14,360 inmates were taking part in a variety of academic classes out of a total adult inmate population of 162,608, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oig.ca.gov\/media\/crob\/reports\/C-ROB%20biannual%20report%20September%2015%202010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report [PDF]<\/a> released last week by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oig.ca.gov\/pages\/c-rob.php\" target=\"_blank\">California Rehabilitation Oversight Board<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bigger problem is that it seems that some seats for potential students are even going unused. &nbsp;Meanwhile, education at the UC and CSU systems gets more expensive every year. &nbsp;The way we reduce our expenditures on prisons isn&#8217;t to cut anti-recidivism programs, it is too make sure that they work and that prisoners are using them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[200],"tags":[7437],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-200","tag-7437"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}