Higher Education of Prisoners

1. Employers

1.1. What benefits are offered, if any, to employers willing to take on a former prisoner

1.2. Employment difficulties after prison due to stigma attached to having a criminal record

2. Funding

2.1. Is it cost effective

2.2. current funding, amount recieve

2.3. Current education programs

2.4. costs of current programs in australian prisons

3. Content words

3.1. funding, support, tertiary education for prisoners, higher education, Government

4. Limiting Words

4.1. known benefits, garnering support for the funding, non-essential or luxury programme, tertiary education, further funding

5. Instruction Words

5.1. Despite, should, allocate further funding

6. Benefits

6.1. assists with gaining employment after prison

6.2. Re-offending prevention

6.3. Not just about skill building, it can also reduce stress to prisoners

6.4. Gives them something to work towards while being in prison

7. Poor education =lower socioeconomic status.

7.1. higher level of drug use

7.2. repeat offending

8. Statistics

8.1. comparison of those gaining employment who have studied compared to former prisoners who recieved no education while incarserated