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Download full textKlein, Steven; Tolbert, Michelle; Bugarin, Rosio; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Tauschek, Gina – Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, US Department of Education, 2004
The most educationally disadvantaged population in the United States resides in our nation's prisons. Incarcerated adults have among the lowest academic skill levels and highest disability and illiteracy rates of any segment of our society--factors that likely contributed to their imprisonment. Upon completing their sentence, most inmates re-enter…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Correctional Education, Illiteracy, Correctional Institutions
