Lilly Thao Final Research Synthesis Paper Auston Habershaw A Second Chance If you were offered a second chance to redeem your mistakes, wouldn’t you take it? People automatically think of providing free college education to prisoners in a negative way. What most have yet to realize is that programs like this are the ones that drastically improve society. We should provide correctional education because it will save money, re-incarceration rates will drop, and because everyone deserves a second chance. There are many arguments against offering free college education. Why should we have to pay for their education? The many privileges that prisoners already have in prison, like meals, counseling, and religious services, are free too. The cost of provide college education alone is very expensive. Essentially, they are getting free college education because the public will be paying through taxes. Besides, educating inmates would only create criminals who are more intelligent; leading to an even more unsafe society. The inmates who receive free education will not appreciate it; they will just take it for granted. Another common comment, in cases regarding lifers, is that providing education will not be of any use. Prisoners serving life sentences will never leave the prison anyway. If correctional education becomes popular, people might want to become imprisoned just to enroll in these programs. As for the teachers and professors, they …show more content…
It also allows for our country to spend less on incarceration institutions - saving us money. Imagine turning those few institutions with correctional education into at least one in every state. Everyone makes mistakes; providing free college in prisons will not only offer those in prison a second chance to fix their mistakes but it will also benefit society. It will provide society with a safer, better, wealthier, and happier