The article, “Learning English behind bars,” states about the English education of prisoners who are arrested in the UIJEONGBU PRISON, Gyeonggi Province. There are 30 students who were selected by the stiff competition and temporarily transferred from prisons across the country. And they are enrolled in a one-year intensive course in English and they have 7 hours of classes in English every day. The prison official in charge of the English course and Jeni Smith who teach them say that they study very hard, although they are criminals. The one of the criminal who are joining the project said that the most important meaning for him is the first time when he has achieved something by himself, moreover the process of learning English has helped him change from within. Lastly, he said, he wants to help people like him by teaching them what he have learned in the prison after when he goes out of the prison.

I agree the project to teach people who committed a crime not only in the normal society, but also in the prison.
Fist, it can be a good chance that gives hope and challenge to prisoner for life. If you think about them who are in the prison like that "they are absolutely end", "they will no more develop", or "they have no right to learn because they committed a crime", you are absolutely wrong. So to speak, that is certainly wrong. Nowadays too many people learn English as a step to go abroad. In other worlds, recently, English is essential element to people as a stool to globalize. That's all that English is a factor to be accepted not only to the normal people, but also to criminal in the prison. Is that right to take their chance of the education because they are criminals? That's wrong. Needless to say, to perpetrate a crime is wrong, but not to allow English education is unfair. So, to teach criminals in prison can be not only the footstep to go for globalization, but also the good chance of education.
Second, such a good chance of education makes them possible to enjoy their life after they walks out of prison. According to this article, many prisoner take a chance to learn English by the written test. And they strain to take part in. Sometimes, special experiences make them more hardly study. Such a positive motive makes a result even better. Although they are prisoner now, the chance of education like this and their effort to study hard is helpful to make them new men. This is very hopeful situation. The meaning of reconstructing or recreating a life in their post-prison life is that they can enjoy new and better life. As you know, English is very important thing in modern society. So, we have to throw out the thinking that they can't learn because they are criminal. Perhaps someone assert that they have to be corrected about morality or personality first. Of course, there's some truth in what they say. However, we have no right to take a their opportunity to learn, although they committed crime. They are also human, and members of society. if we can make them new men by like this English teaching program, that means that we get a positive result we want.
In conclusion, if we do like that we said advanced, such things will give us assistance to go forward to more positive and lighter way for making our life better. Therefore, the English educating project is not only chance to give criminal hopes and challenges, but also the chance that we can contact them, having such a globalized open-mind. Moreover we can help them to enjoy their new life. So such program have to be encouraged, because that have too many advantages. If we just run away from this problem with having narrow vision, we couldn't take a such result we said before and the situation is worse and worse. By such reasons, these have very important meaning.

by jin-young(JIN)