Education Based Incarceration - Facilitation

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2012

Every year, there is a push in any county to provide solution-based plans for prisons rather than punishment-based ones. There is a growing trend in the incarceration arena that prisoners should be given resources to help them grow out of their previous life and into a more prosperous one. In response, Los Angeles County initiated it's Education-Based Incarceration program. Education-Based Incarceration is a component of the criminal justice system that is focused on deterring and mitigating crime by investing in its offenders through education and rehabilitation. By providing substantive education in jails, and being supportive rather than punitive in efforts to reduce crime related behavior, the likelihood of recidivism is lowered—with success and stability in the community following naturally. The efforts made through EBI are an investment toward safer and more stable communities.