Prison inmates should be given free laptops and access to online learning, a committee of MPs has said
And it recommends that digital education passports be introduced for prisoners, so that inmates transferred to other prisons at short notice can continue their education as quickly as possible, and do not become disheartened through delays in passing on information about their studies.
The report says that links between prisons and employers should be improved, given that the reoffending rate for adult prisoners released from custody is 42 per cent, at an estimated yearly cost of £15 billion. A deputy governor of learning should be responsible for educational outcomes for prisoners in each institution, and pay for education must be equal to that for work to incentivise prisoners to continue studying, the report says.
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