Mic drop: From U.S. DOJ: Illiteracy and crime are connected. The Department of Justice states, “The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence, and crime is welded to reading failure. Over 70% of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level.” https://t.co/5AjRjuIKXz
— David Castillo (@castillodavidca) July 25, 2022
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration.