Criminal access to tertiary study is extremely limited and difficult to claim. This is due to the societal belief that criminals should not be rewarded for an act against humanity. Many prisoners admit they have learnt their lesson and look towards their future as a life without crime. However, these criminals have great difficulty in supporting themselves once out of prison and consequently re-offend and find themselves back behind bars. If the complexity of these prisoners being granted tertiary studies continues, criminals will persist in recommitting and will consequently become a larger burden to society.
Many criminals, once in jail, share their illegal skills, which result in more unlawfully knowledgeable prisoners. This is because these prisoners have nothing better to do with their time in jail but sit around and swap criminal stories. Limiting these prisoners access of tertiary studies encourages the exchange of criminal skills and consequently raises societies criminal status. These, now more illegally educated criminals, leave prison with additional unlawful skills and use them to illegitimately support themselves in the future, with less chance of being caught and up back behind bars.
Easy access to a good education should be available to prisoners despite their criminal status. This is because the option of further education not only gives prisoners something constructive to do with their time in jail but also prevents them of learning further illegal skills from other more criminally advanced offenders. In order of making tertiary studies easier for prisoners to access, society must first accept that all prisoners deserve a second chance. Once this is established people will realise that the rights to a good education is a vital part of everyone’s life despite a criminal past. Societal voice is a possible plan in achieving easier access for prisoners in relation to a further education. This includes members of society speaking out on behalf of these criminals and protesting about their rights to enhance their education and eventually become a benefit to society.
If prisoners are not granted easier access to a further education, society as a whole will suffer. These criminals will continue to advance their illegal knowledge and carry out more dangerous and unlawful acts, which will have a bigger effect on the community. Prisoners will also persist in re-offending in order of supporting themselves and consequently will end up back behind bars. This will have a huge effect on society, as people will begin to feel that they are not safe in their community as ex-prisoners have advanced their criminal knowledge and now have the ability to deceive the government.
If easier access to tertiary studies was granted to people in prison, these criminals could eventually educate children and help them to avoid a life in crime. Criminals will leave prison with a different perspective of life and with something positive to work towards. The right to a further education should be available to everyone despite ones criminal past. As a community and for the benefit of our society we need to ensure that this further education is made easier for prisoners to access. I ask you now to stand up for these criminals, not only for their benefit but also for your own. Stand up and support their basic rights to a further education and inform people that without this access our society as a whole will suffer.