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Article: Practical solutions: addressing offenders' educational opportunities and challenges.

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During the past 24 years, the United States has experienced a 400 percent increase in its prison population. Federal and state prison populations rose from 330,000 in 1980 (Lynch and Sabol, 2001) to more than 2 million in 2004 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005). Having been so successful with the "get tough on crime" agenda, the public's attention has now turned to the more than 600,000 offenders released to U.S. communities each year (Visher and Travis, 2003). Research shows that during a three-year period, seven of 10 offenders will be rearrested and more than 50 percent will return to prison (DOJ, 2002). President Bush, in his 2004 State of the Union address, proposed ...

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