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Education In American Penal Institutions, Dolores Driscoll Britz

Bachelors’ Theses

The humanizing of penal incarceration has during the present century strode forward in an ever increasing upward trend. We no longer see our prisons merely as instruments of an avenging justice, but rather as a hospital instituted to attend the social ills and maladjustments of the individual. Coupled with and supplemented by this socializing process, has come a new emphasis on the importance of education in the penal institution. It is with this aspect of penology that the thesis is concerned.

Due to the youth of the subject, since education in prisons is still in its childhood, there is a …