" In the name of safety and punishment, prison constraints prevent incarcerated men and women from becoming more educated, more skilled, more whole. In addition, the constraints render people less apt to reintegrate into our communities in productive, law-abiding ways. Detainees who participate in educational classes while incarcerated have a 13 percent higher chance of getting a job once they leave prison. More strikingly, they’re half as likely to break the law again. Yet two-thirds of American prisons have no means for detainees to take educational classes beyond the high school level. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration