Should prisoners have the right to education in prison?

[-:Undertaker:-]

I think education would benefit prisoners greatly and is far more likely to see those prisoners change and not reoffend. I have read about Norwegian prisons and how they treat their prisoners and they have the lowest reoffending figures in Europe.
This article might be an interesting read:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...ed-like-people

However you can argue that they are receiving a life of luxury rather then serving a sentence and I agree a line has to be drawn but I think its vital that prisoners are given the opportunity to learn and change rather then going in jail coming out having no beneficial skills which would force them back to crime.

The Norway stuff it total rubbish and here's why - you hear of these murderers being 'reintegrated' back into society but that ignores the fact that most murders are one-offs, ie a man has a grudge with another and it ends in murder. So the question therefore is only this - is he to be punished or not?

[akeel$]

Yes, I think they should definitely have an education in prison so when they get out they know what to do, if you get me lol.
Spending loads of time in one cell is not a nice feeling, but they have the benefit of the doubt to learn from their mistakes, but even so they probably won't know what to do or what to say, because you'd obv forget stuff whilst being in prison, it isn't wake up everyday to find your blackboard in front of you and a teacher telling yo what to do x

[AgnesIO]

Yes, I think they should definitely have an education in prison so when they get out they know what to do, if you get me lol.
Spending loads of time in one cell is not a nice feeling, but they have the benefit of the doubt to learn from their mistakes, but even so they probably won't know what to do or what to say, because you'd obv forget stuff whilst being in prison, it isn't wake up everyday to find your blackboard in front of you and a teacher telling yo what to do x

It's not meant to be a pleasure.

[Reality]

Ok, human rights state you are entitled to an education, there for this is going to be going towards yes they should have an education in prison. Why shouldn't they? If they don't have an education what is the likely hood of them getting a job (it does happen) people can get jobs even after they've gone to prison depending on the offensive. If prisoners are going to be prisoners they need to have some sort of humanity left in them to be able to still have an inner relation to the outside world! Whoever says they shouldn't get an education should think about if they didn't have an education, what would you be doing right here right now? You might not be able to even go on the computer that you're using right now!
The prisoners should be given something to do whilst they serve their sentence as if they didn't and just got let out for breakfast, lunch, dinner and exercises then they would lead a boring life, not that this is the aim but they should be given an extra thing to do to let them out of the YxY cell.
So yeah I am all in for letting them having an education whilst in prison!

[AgnesIO]

Ok, human rights state you are entitled to an education, there for this is going to be going towards yes they should have an education in prison. Why shouldn't they? If they don't have an education what is the likely hood of them getting a job (it does happen) people can get jobs even after they've gone to prison depending on the offensive. If prisoners are going to be prisoners they need to have some sort of humanity left in them to be able to still have an inner relation to the outside world! Whoever says they shouldn't get an education should think about if they didn't have an education, what would you be doing right here right now? You might not be able to even go on the computer that you're using right now!
The prisoners should be given something to do whilst they serve their sentence as if they didn't and just got let out for breakfast, lunch, dinner and exercises then they would lead a boring life, not that this is the aim but they should be given an extra thing to do to let them out of the YxY cell.
So yeah I am all in for letting them having an education whilst in prison!

Good, and maybe they could work? Why should even more of my taxes go towards prisoners?

[despect]

We had this discussion on the Chatathon on HabboxLive and i personally feel everyone is entitled to an education no matter their age. Although, it'll be a bit difficult if the person is in prison for life sentence simply because most people try to get an education to get a good job or get the career they really want, so if for example a person is in prison for life they won't have the privilege to getting a job or even achieve anything they want to because of their situation.

[Thomas.]

Prisoners are just similar people like us. We get educated, what is stopping them.