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| Arrendale State Prison inmates go back to school |
| By gainesvilletimes.com- Nick Watson |
| Published: 01/12/2015 |
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Within the first week of the new year, an inmate at the Arrendale State Prison in Habersham County earned her high school diploma while behind bars. Needing to brush up just a tad on social studies, she is the first graduate of the program that began Monday to allow young inmates to obtain high school diplomas. “She only needed one course, so she was able to study up on that content material (and) take the state’s high school graduation test for that area,” said Buster Evans, assistant commissioner of education for the Department of Corrections. Statewide, a self-reported 26,743 inmates, more than half of the total population of 53,086, did not have a completed high school education, according to statistics provided by information specialist Susan Megahee. Some 2,764 inmates did not report their education levels. Read More. |
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