Illiteracy: A Pipeline to Prison

How To Keep Your Children Out of Jail

There is a 67% chance your child will end up in jail or on welfare if he or she is not reading proficiently by the 4th grade. That’s according to literacy statistics provided at begintoread.com.

Studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, support this statistic, citing 70% of adult inmates and 85% of a…