A/HRC/11/8 page 3 CONTENTS Paragraphs Page I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 1-4 4 II. BACKGROUND ............................................................................... 5 - 15 4 A. Resources do not explain policy .................................................. 12 - 13 6 B. International learning ................................................................... 14 - 15 6 CONFLICTING PHILOSOPHIES AND ASSUMPTIONS ............. 16 - 20 7 A. Role of prisons v. “correctional” education v. the right to education ................................................................................. 16 - 18 7 B. Participation ................................................................................. 19 - 20 8 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................... 21 - 27 8 V. THE REALITY OF PRISON EDUCATION .................................... 28 - 52 10 A. Global detention: levels and trends ............................................. 28 - 29 10 B. General barriers to education in detention ................................... 30 - 34 11 C. Learning disabilities and learning difficulties in prisons ............ 35 - 36 12 D. Children in detention ................................................................... 37 - 42 13 E. Education programmes for children living in prison with their mothers ................................................................................ 43 - 46 14 F. Women in prisons ........................................................................ 47 - 52 16 REPLIES RECEIVED TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE ...................... 53 - 88 18 A. State responses ............................................................................. 56 - 69 18 B. Replies by intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and civil society .................................................... 70 - 88 21 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS .............................. 89 - 102 24 III. IV. VI. VII.