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Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind

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  1. PACE is a peer-education program in the NYS correctional system for HIV prevention and intervention. It was begun in 1987 in women's prisons, under the name of AIDS counseling and education, and has now become the most successful HIV prevention program in the State correctional facilities. Today, given its success, there are plans to expand the PACE focus on AIDS intervention to other health issues, such as hepatitis, tobacco prevention, MRSA and any future health-related problems that spread from the community to the prison setting.

  2. According to the National Institute of Justice Reports to the US Congress, prison education is far more effective at reducing recidivism than boot camps, shock incarceration or vocational training. Cf. Education as Crime Prevention: The Case of Reinstating Pell Grant Eligibility for the Incarcerated, by D. Karpowitz and M. Kenner.

  3. Before 1995, there were approximately 350 college degree programs (70 of them in NYS alone) in prisons nationwide. As of now only a few programs survive. For Whom the Pell Tolled: Higher Education for Prisoners http://www.talkleft.com/story2005/02/19/061/78055).

  4. Some of these organizations included the Osborne Association, the Fortune Society, the Center for Community Alternatives, the Women's Prison Association and the Prison Ministries. They provide HIV prevention education, HIV treatment education, transitional/discharge planning for people infected with HIV, HIV testing, among other services.

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Valderruten, D. Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind. Lat Stud 6, 205–211 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/lst.2008.13

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