WE ARE AN EDUCATIONAL COMPANY THAT PROMOTES LITERACY AWARENESS
WE PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
THAT BUILD STRONGER COMMUNITIES
Politicians and journalists often claim prison planners use third grade reading scores to predict the number of future prison beds needed. While it has been found that this claim is mostly a myth, there is in fact a strong connection between early low literacy skills and our country’s exploding incarceration rates. An often-overlooked aspect of mass incarceration and the criminal justice system in the United States is the abhorrent illiteracy rates in prisons The Literacy Project Foundation found that three out of five people in U.S. prisons cannot read, and 85% of juvenile offenders have trouble reading. Other research has estimated that illiteracy rates in prisons are as high as 75% of the prison population. This unaddressed issue in the United States prison system is inextricably linked to high recidivism rates.
Reading is the foundation of all learning and knowledge. With it, the broader world is within one’s grasp. Literacy is the benchmark for most academic success, from understanding assignments to solving story problems in math, to writing an essay. As one reading teacher says, “Literacy is priceless”.