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Show Prison Schools Growing , Steadily Throughout U. S. NEW YORK. Education and vocational vo-cational training to rehabilitate inmates in-mates of American prisons has swept through the country in the last year, transforming many into virtual schools, according to a report of the American Prison association. Out of 136 national and state prison institutions, the survey said, 123 utilize uti-lize educational training as an integral in-tegral part of their systems today. Three-quarters of them give expert vocational training to inmates as well. Forty-four state prisons, with a combined population of 86,367, reported report-ed 15,825 inmates attending part-time schools, and 6,769 attending full time. Seventeen state reformatories with 17,524 inmates had 4,728 in part-time part-time and 3,427 in full time school, the survey showed. Nearly half the ! inmates were using their idle time to train for gainful employment when they are free. |