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| Campus behind bars: Washington U. teaches inmates at Pacific prison |
| By stlpublicradio.org- Dale Singer |
| Published: 04/07/2015 |
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Washington University philosophy professor Claude Evans remembers the day that one of his students leaned back so far in his chair that the chair broke and a foot-long piece of metal broke off and was lying on the floor. Right away, his students made sure that Evans took custody of the broken piece until the end of class. “One of my guys immediately said, ‘Give that to the professor. Give that to the professor,’” Evans recalls. Why the urgency? Because Evans wasn’t teaching a session at the university’s leafy, traditional campus. He was teaching inmates at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, as part of a pilot program where offenders can earn college credit and prepare for the day when they join society beyond the fences topped by razor wire. Read More. |
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