Why Does a Large Prison Population Yield So Few Participants in a College Program Offered at Prison Sites?
A study was conducted to determine why such a small number (less than 2 percent) of the approximately 9,000 adult male prisoners housed in the 3 complexes of the California Institution for Men (Chino, California) in the mid-1980s were actively participating in the college program offered at the prison sites. Data were collected through interviews with several prison administrators, staff, and inmates. The study determined that only about 3,000 men were actually housed at the facilities at any one time and that only about 60 percent of them were eligible for the college program. So 10 percent of the prison population, not less than 2 percent actually participated. Reasons for lack of participation stemmed from an overall anti-college bias on the part of administrators and inmates. College programs were not widely publicized, so that inmates often did not know about the programs or were discouraged from registering. For those who did register, long hours on prison jobs, trouble in the pr
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