. >>> paul wright. we have talked about waiting lifts, shortage of access.o prison authorities use this as a sort of carrot for selected inmates, only for people who can get through a fine screen? >> i think the bigger problem is it's not available. in most prison systems there's no system of higher education. most of the officials support higher education, the problem they have is getting it funded by state legislatures, congress and grants and things like that. in general there's not really a vocal lobby against education, when you look at education as a hold, we spend how many billions educating people from kindergarten to 12th grade. depending on the state, 40-80% of prisoners are functionally illiterate. it doesn't make sense that we'll spend time and energy teaching kids from a through 12. as soon as they wind up in prison, then we'll lose interest and not do anything for them. >> paul wright says there's not an anti-education lobby, when the obama administration introduced the proposal as a pilot programme to bring back that for incarcerated people. t