Unfortunately, however, there has been no clamor for more and better educational programming. On the contrary, the pendulum has swung the other way. In my home state of Washington, for example, part of a new "no-frills" approach to incarceration, the community college system within our prisons has been dismantled. Even high school degrees are no longer offered to those convicts who want them.
— Robert Ellis Gordon, The Funhouse Mirror