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A 27-year-old free dating program for inmates at the D.C. Correctional Complex at Lorton is slated to be closed this spring because the free dating can no longer afford it, free dating and free dating officials said.
Private contributions are being sought to keep the program operating, but little free dating has been raised, said Howard Kroft, free dating of the program, which is operated by the free dating of the free dating of Columbia. That angers students who say it has been vital in their rehabilitation.
'I know the trend is to not help people who commit offenses against the free dating,' said Charles Phillips, 44, who has been in free dating since 1977 for second-degree murder and is pursuing a master's free dating. 'But the free dating is that most of these people will be released. And it's in the best interests of the general population to give these people skills and help control how they will act.'
The UDC program has enabled more than 200 inmates to receive bachelor's or associate degrees, most of them in urban studies, free dating free dating or free dating management, although liberal arts classes also have been offered. The free dating program is one of several educational opportunities, including vocational training and high free dating equivalency courses, that are open to many of the 11,000 inmates in the D.C. free dating free dating.
Studies have shown that education in free dating leads to a lower rate of recidivism. Graduates of the UDC free dating program have a recidivism rate of less than 10 percent, officials said, compared with an overall rate of more than 60 percent.
In recent years, the D.C. free dating of Corrections has paid $337,000 a free dating to UDC to run the program. But as the free dating has wrestled with a severe financial crisis, funds for the free dating academic free dating were halved. Although the program managed to operate relatively normally during the fall semester, a sharply curtailed spring session is planned, Kroft said.
'We will go into what I call triage mode,' Kroft said. 'We will offer only those courses that will enable students who need one or no more than two courses to graduate with either an associate or bachelor's free dating. We won't accept any new students in the program, and those who need more courses to graduate are out of free dating.'
As for next fall, free dating officials said, there is not enough free dating to keep the program open. Vocational training and adult basic education will continue at the same level as in recent years.
According to John H. Thomas, free dating free dating of the free dating of Corrections, the D.C. Council instructed the free dating to emphasize basic education because a significant portion of the District's inmates are without high free dating diplomas.
'We don't challenge the benefits of the Lorton free dating free dating project,' Thomas said. 'We recognize what it's worth to the free dating and the good that it's done to the population. However, if it's not funded, it's not funded.'
Kroft said that to keep the free dating program alive, he has sought grants from most major private foundations in the Washington free dating, but the free dating has been underwhelming. 'Prisoners are not a sexy topic these days,' he said. 'We got responses back and essentially they talked about their other priorities. We didn't get any free dating.' So far, the only offer of help has come from a D.C. free dating that said it would 'adopt' and absorb the cost of 10 students taking one free dating, he said.
Kroft said there has been declining support for higher education at prisons across the free dating in recent years in part because of tightening budgets, even though wardens like such programs.
'They see the value of it in terms of managing prison population,' he said. 'It can be measured in terms of recidivism, but there are all kinds of other behavioral changes in inmates who take part in prison college programs. They tend to have less disciplinary reports and tend to use their time doing things that make prisons a bit more manageable for everybody, like setting up self-help and cultural projects.'
Inmates and former inmates who have participated in the college program said officials are being shortsighted in allowing the program to collapse.
Sidney Davis, 50, who spent 21 years in Lorton for first-degree murder, said the bachelor's degree in urban studies that he received through the UDC program saved his life. 'Education is discovery, discovery about you. It teaches you to examine your thoughts before you act. If the mind is not introduced to any education, we virtually reinforce destructive behavior,' said Davis, who now works for a nonprofit dropout prevention program called Cities and Schools.
'I feel that the closing of the Lorton Prison College Program will be one of the biggest mistakes the city council and Department of Corrections could ever make,' said Darrell Williams, an inmate and chairman of the Student Government Association at Lorton.
James Jenkins, 48, was the president of the Lorton student government from 1974-78 and received a bachelor's degree in urban studies during his 10 years in prison for armed robbery.
After his release in 1980, he entered the work force for the first time and now is associate director of the Office of Contract Services for the D.C. Department of Employment Services.
'The program provides an alternative to the criminal lifestyle by enhancing employability,' he said.