Recommending Literacy Training as Part of a Rehabilitative Sentence

Those consulted were unanimous in their advice that it is inappropriate to sentence someone to literacy training since training cannot and should not be seen in anyway to fulfill the punitive aspect of a sentence. Nonetheless, there was agreement that nothing under the law prohibits the recommendation or encouragement of literacy training as one component of a rehabilitative course of action in a sentence involving probation or a community service order. Some judges said that in their statement to the accused they include, from time to time, suggestions that the person pursue further education to better him or herself and to earn the means to create a life free of crime.