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| Mich. Department of Corrections works to offer higher education opportunities to some inmates |
| By therepublic.com |
| Published: 05/20/2013 |
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LANSING, Michigan — The Michigan Department of Corrections is working on several efforts to teach community college courses and vocational training in-house to a small number of inmates near parole. The effort comes after years without funding for prisoners to access higher education, The Detroit News reported (http://bit.ly/13B62Wt ) Monday, and Michigan is joining a pilot project that could provide evidence to back the idea of postsecondary education in prisons nationwide. "We want to build the evidence that investment in postsecondary education is a cost-effective intervention and a wise use of public dollars," said Fred Patrick of the New York-based Vera Institute of Justice, an independent, nonprofit research and policy group. Read More. |
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