
“The findings, from the largest-ever meta-analysis of correctional educational studies, suggest that prison education programs are cost effective, with a $1 investment in prison education reducing incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during
the first three years post-release.”
The Rand Corporation
https://www.rand.org/news/press/2013/08/22.html
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keep our writing program
funded DURING THE PANDEMIC
EDUCATION REDUCES RECIDIVISM
Teaching creative writing in prisons offers prisoners the chance to improve themselves. On release, if a formerly incarcerated person decides that pursuing education is a better choice than returning to old criminal habits, society benefits. That’s what we aim to achieve at Yardtime Literary Program.
to keep our program alive during the pandemic, we need your support. please consider a contribution to our program. the fiscal sponsor for yardtime literary program is intersection for the arts, based in San Francisco.
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YOUR DONATION WILL HELP GIVE AN INCARCERATED PERSON A CHANCE FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT