Author Topic: University hosts program that allows criminals to avoid jail time with a few essays  (Read 320 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Free Vulcan

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 23,756
  • Gender: Male
  • Ah, the air is so much fresher here...
Some criminals in the Richmond, Virginia area are eligible for a writing class at Virginia Commonwealth University that seeks to deter crime and put low-level offenders on the right path. They write a few essays and avoid jail time.

But in response to repeated requests from The College Fix on whether the 7-year-old program has been successful in reducing recidivism, neither the university nor the state government offered any evidence to that effect.

Read more at: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/44038/
The Republic is lost.