Prison Inmates Quote by US Dept. of Education

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

— Jeffrey Archer

“Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?” “Really?” This was news to me. “Your world…

— Carolee Dean

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent…

— Sadiq Khan

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need…

— Tuvia Tenenbom

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now.…

— Walter Dean Myers

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian…

— George Pelecanos

“I learned that the way governors projected the numbers of beds they'd need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third…

— Wes Moore

“The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25 percent of the world’s prison population.”

— Shane Claiborne

“ProLiteracy Worldwide’s “President’s Report on the State of Adult Literacy 2006” found that 70 percent of prison inmates in America lacked basic literacy.2 The…

— Michael Sullivan

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”

— Gabor Maté

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz