Online Learning Becomes Court-Ordered Community Service

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo Finance reports that convicted criminal offenders can serve their court-ordered community service hours online by taking educational courses through Community Service Help. According to the article, there is a high correlation between criminal activity and lack of education. Who knew? 'About 40 percent of all U.S. prison inmates never finished high school, and nearly 44 percent of jail inmates did not complete high school. More current data shows that hasn't changed. In Washington, D.C., for instance, 44 percent of Department of Corrections inmates are not high school graduates. Less than 2 percent had 16 years or more of schooling.'"

Great idea!

[Vinegar Joe]

More criminals online. Exactly what we needed.

Once again

[Dunbal]

Correlation != cause. Educating them will just mean smarter criminals. Not everyone can work in banking.

Repeated

[Anonymous Coward]

33% of statistics are simply repeated. Of cited statistics 67% are not repeated. More recently 33% of statistics were repeated.