The Benefit of Prison Education: Inmate Students’ Self Reflection

--At present, the Indonesia child prison shows a commitment in the effort to change the condition of the convicted person through the process of education. The education process held in the prison is expected that child prisoners will have provision after they are leaving the correctional institution. The purpose of this study is to understand the important and benefit of prison education in Indonesia as perceived by inmate students. Data for this study was gathered from 60 inmate-students from lower and upper secondary prison-based school participated in in-depth interviews. The method of qualitative analysis used within this research is thematic analysis. Inmate students reveal that a common curricular feature of the prison school was the opportunity to earn “easy credits”. They are also appreciating the opportunity to catch up on missed months or even years of school, enabling inmate students to make significant progress toward secondary school graduation. The prison school was in many ways a positive experience in which the students received attention for prison staffs and achieved academically.