Ghosts in the machine: Incarcerated students and the Digital University (AUR 57 02)

By Ian Dobson (NTEU National Office). Providing higher education to offenders in custody has become an increasingly complex business in the age of digital learning. Most Australian prisoners still have no direct access to the internet and relatively unreliable access to information technology. As incarceration is now a business, prisons, like universities, are increasingly subject to economistic pressures and priorities. More...