The House of Commons' Education Committee study says as long as security can be assured and access is tightly restricted to educational purposes, it recommends the Ministry of Justice provide in-cell laptops
It also recommends the Ministry of Justice introduces a consistent assessment for every prisoner upon entry to prison from an educational psychologist,"or at the very least a more intensive form of screening".
"It is unacceptable that the effort made by prisoners in improving themselves can be so easily discarded," the report says. "This regulation disproportionately affects people who might benefit most from higher-level study. The government must remove the 'six-year rule' so that prisoners on long sentences can apply for higher education courses earlier in their sentence," it argues.
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