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Re: JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons

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“ The students in Ohio prisons have reviewed nearly 30,000 unique articles over the past year, with 10% in the last month. Access there will be expanded to the prison general libraries. The students at Tennessee Higher Education Initiative regularly access 2,400 unique articles in a month—the highest per capita use in the country for incarcerated learners”

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Re: JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons

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Me in my late 20s would have wanted to go to prison for this. Having to pay college tuition to access academic material like this is so insane.

there’s always scihub

For the material I wanted at the time, the solution was libgen. But yeah.

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Me in my late 20s would have wanted to go to prison for this. Having to pay college tuition to access academic material like this is so insane.

Community college libraries usually have access to the same databases as other higher ed institutions. CC tuition for a single class varies, but under a couple hundred bucks is typical.

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“ The students in Ohio prisons have reviewed nearly 30,000 unique articles over the past year, with 10% in the last month. Access there will be expanded to the prison general libraries. The students at Tennessee Higher Education Initiative regularly access 2,400 unique articles in a month—the highest per capita use in the country for incarcerated learners”

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When you realise that the US has, by a large margin, the highest percentage of prisoners of any nation; you also realise that what you say is not the case.
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