Importance of Education for prisoners

(1) Education is vital for the overall development of prisoners. Through education their outlook, habits and total perspective of life can be changed. Education of prisoners benefits the society as well as it leads to their rehabilitation and self-sufficiency. Education reduces the tendency to crime. This would mean less crime, fewer victims, fewer prisoners, more socially productive people, and less expenditure on criminal justice and law enforcement. (2) Life in prison is extremely monotonous, routinised and regimented. The education activities offer opportunity to a prisoner to remove from his mind depressing thoughts leading to relaxation and joy. Reality must be accepted that to confine offenders behind walls, without trying to change them through education and other activities, is an expensive folly.