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Pastor urges lawmakers to fund in‑prison education, expand volunteer access
Summary
A pastor testifying to the Joint Interim Committees urged legislators to treat prison education as a budget priority, called for study desks in cells, expanded volunteer access and vocational training beginning at ninth grade to reduce recidivism.
Pastor Dr. White told the Joint Interim Committees that many incarcerated students read at about a fourth‑ or fifth‑grade level and urged the panel to treat education for people behind bars as a budget priority.
"Education. We have to do more to educate those who are incarcerated," Dr. White said, adding that programs that give people "something to look forward to" change behavior and lower recidivism. He said Tennessee’s Fast Track Education Initiative was being provided to committee members as an…
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