SJ363: Incarcerated persons; joint sub. to study accessibility of education programs & higher educ. oppor.

Chief Patron

Sen. Fred Quayle (R-13)

Status

Bill is Dead

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Summary

Study; increasing the accessibility of education programs and higher education opportunities to incarcerated persons; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study increasing the accessibility of education programs and higher education opportunities to incarcerated persons.  In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) evaluate the existing education program for prisoners in Virginia, including the advantages and benefits of the program for prisoners, their families, and the community, and its effect on recidivism; (ii) identify program needs, including ways to accommodate more inmates, and recommend solutions; (iii) review prisoner education programs in other states; (iv) consider financial aid alternatives to assist inmates in accessing college, and ways to fund college education programs for prisoners in the Commonwealth; (v) examine the relationship between poor educational opportunities, delinquency, unidentified learning disabilities, and crime; (vi) determine the number of inmates with learning disabilities, and the average reading level of inmates in state and local adult and juvenile correctional institutions; and (vii) consider such other related matters as the joint subcommittee may deem necessary and appropriate to satisfy the objectives of this study.

The joint subcommittee shall submit its executive summary to the 2008 and 2009 Sessions of the General Assembly, and submit its final report to the 2009 Session of the General Assembly.

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