Jail education program touts huge success rate

A teaching program with a 700 per cent improvement rate sounds too good to be true. But La Crosse County reports that a jail education program is preparing many more prisoners for tech school and the workplace than the number who accomplished that before the program started. Jane Klekamp heads the county justice sanctions office, and she says the ‘Project Proven’ campaign also teaches inmates skills just for getting along in the workplace. Klekamp tells a county committee that out of 300 former prisoners served by Project Proven, more than half of them have found work, and a third were able to get into Western Tech.