By Stefanie Botelho. Then, he walks through the first of a few metal detectors, and stands still to have a wand waved across his body and to be patted down. Heppard is escorted through five locked or guarded doors and gates before arriving to the bare, windowless classroom where he teaches philosophy courses as part of the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium. More...
21 000 détenus (16 500 en ETP) travaillent volontairement dans les prisons français, gagnant, selon les postes, entre 20 à 45 % du Smic. Régi non pas par le code du travail mais par l’administration pénitentiaire, ce travail fait débat car il s'exerce sans pratiquement aucun droit social (pas de contrat, pas d'assurance-chômage, pas de congés payés...). Le Conseil constitutionnel doit se prononcer le 25 septembre sur le sujet. Voir l'article...
Les détenus ayant le niveau CAP peuvent suivre, auprès de 4 professeurs, des cours de français, maths, anglais et histoire-géographie. Des bénévoles dispensent également des cours d'informatique pour acquérir les bases en traitement de texte et tableur. Voir l'article...
Par Anne-Cécile Geoffroy. Le Conseil constitutionnel examine aujourd'hui une QPC sur le travail en prison. Enjeu : faire reconnaître des droits sociaux aux détenus. Et pousser la loi à mieux encadrer la relation de travail. Voir l'article...
Clôture de l’appel public à la concurrence le 13 octobre 2015 à 12 h 00
Programme personnalisé d'accompagnement à l'insertion professionnelle dans les établissements pénitentiaires du ressort de la direction interrégionale des services pénitentiaires Bretagne Basse-Normandie et Pays de la Loire. Voir l'article...
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...
By Stefanie Botelho. So goes the compact black prisoners made with each other during the swell of Apartheid in the 1960's. In a lime quarry on Robben Island, several miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners educated others under the brutal watch of white guards. More...
By Matt Zalaznick. A small-scale program that will give prisoners Pell Grants to pursue college degrees represents a symbolic step toward expanding access to higher education. But only a fraction of the inmates who could benefit will receive financial aid, experts say. More...
By Tim Goral. As a nation, we talk a lot about lack of access to higher education, but we don't talk much about the lack of higher education in prison. With 700,000 people a year getting out of prison, we should — if we're serious about changing lives, reducing prison costs, and improving public safety. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. No bars to education is the Corrections Department’s mantra with its new programme to allow internet into prisons. More...
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