Jail Inmates Approved for Pilot Education Program
Press release from Humboldt County:
[Yesterday], the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a pilot project that will provide inmates in the Humboldt County Correctional Facility access to education on a electronic tablet platform. The focus of this project will be to maintain compliance with Title 15 section 1061, which requires to Humboldt County Jail to provide voluntary academic / vocational education of both sentenced and non-sentenced inmates. The pilot project will expand educational programs to the entire population of the facility and introduce additional educational content in the continued effort to aid with offender’s re-entry into the community and help reduce recidivism.
Jail Education Solutions, Inc., also known as Edovo, will contract with the county to provide the educational service, beginning with a 90-day pilot project in a section of the facility. No taxpayer dollars will be used for this project. The trial will cost about $12,000 for the leasing fees and infrastructure set-up, paid for out of the Sheriff’s Office Inmate Welfare Fund. This fund is generated from phone and commissary commissions and is required to be used for inmate benefit, such as educational programs.
Edovo is already established in county correctional facilities in Sacramento and Madera. Their vast educational content includes courses GED/High school equivalency, basic literacy, ESL, employment training and job skill development, health and wellness including substance abuse treatment, anger management, and cognitive behavior therapy. Edovo will also interface with College of the Redwoods to allow access to their curriculum as well, which will supplement the classes already being taught in the facility. These tablets will not be internet accessible and all the content is regulated and tracked by the correctional facility staff.
After the initial three months, the Sheriff’s Office will evaluate the program to determine if the educational would benefit the inmates and reduce recidivism in the community.
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Waste of time and money.
A inmate will always find a way .if they want on the internet .they will be a surfin the net. Buy any way or the other. I do hope this works out for all involved .
Give a person in a cell a tablet and she can teach herself literacy. After completing this program she can enroll in Trump University. And they fund from a phone tax that prevents inmates from having contact with their families.
Win-win for somebody no doubt.
This is s big joke these people that are there are there for a reason why and I don’t think trump has anything to do with this one!!!!
Oh, thank Ja! From the headline, I thought we were going to offer flight instruction…
Haha
It sounds great, from what little I’ve read about the program.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2016/03/12/edovo-maker-of-tablet-based-education-for-inmates-aims-to-reduce-recidivism-and-continues-to-grow/#3488205f57b6
From what I heard played on the radio, there was alot of info left out of this. The main thing being; inmates would also be allowed to use them to watch television on them as a reward for good behavior, also the radio stated if the program was considered successful and continued after the trial period that it would cost the sheriff’s $108,000!
I am appalled with this. If there’s extra money that has been earned from phone use and commissary, it could be used for something other than rewarding good behavior. If the children of our county can use books to learn, so can the inmates of the county jail.
Where’s my reward for good behavior?