From struggling readers to incarceration | Behind the Investigation
April 7, 2025
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From struggling readers to incarceration | Behind the Investigation
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<p class="text | article-text">Thirty years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice warned the <a href="https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/04/03/low-literacy-linked-georgias-incarceration-crisis-decades-after-federal-warning/">failure to learn to read</a> was not just linked to delinquency, but a likely cause of it. That prediction is playing out today across Georgia, where low literacy rates remain persistent and incarceration rates remain the highest of any democratic country in the world.</p>
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