“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.”

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The Rand Corporation 

https://www.rand.org/news/press/2013/08/22.html

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support our campaign to 

keep our writing program 

funded DURING THE PANDEMIC

EDUCATION REDUCES RECIDIVISM

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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.

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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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donate here.

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YOUR DONATION WILL HELP GIVE AN INCARCERATED PERSON A CHANCE FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT