News from PPEP http://postprisonedu.org/index.php?page=news 2012-05-18T01:05:07+01:00 text/html 2011-08-03T15:48:10+01:00 http://postprisonedu.org/ http://postprisonedu.org/index.php?page=news&full=4 Consider this question what is our prison system for punishment or rehabilitation Retribution or justice Recently prisoner treatment and needs gained national attention with a three week hunger strike that began at Californiarsquos Pelican Bay State prison near the Oregon border. The strike is over but debate continues over how text/html 2008-11-12T12:41:54+01:00 http://postprisonedu.org/ http://postprisonedu.org/index.php?page=news&full=3 Even as the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of its citizens in detention it offers scant help to those who after serving their time need to repurpose their lives. About 8400 people are released each year from Washington states correctional institutions most just get text/html 2011-05-26T11:40:15+01:00 http://postprisonedu.org/ http://postprisonedu.org/index.php?page=news&full=2 Ari Kohn compares the difficulty of getting into the program he runs with that of gaining entrance to an elite university -- over the last five years hes been able to accept less than 25 percent of the hundreds of applications hes received. text/html 2009-07-16T11:32:56+01:00 http://postprisonedu.org/ http://postprisonedu.org/index.php?page=news&full=1 PPED helps people who want another chance in life by moving any obstacle that gets in the way of further education. That could mean paying tuition helping with rent running interference with various bureaucracies even tutoring. Kohn and the two young women who work with him do whatever the students