No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
Bobby ScottStudies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
Bobby ScottGiving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
Bobby ScottThe promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
Bobby Scott