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CSCU looks to offer college degrees for inmates
By wfsb.com- Roger Susanin
Published: 10/22/2015

NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) -

The state's largest public college system is asking the federal government to use tax payer money to help convicts get college credit.

A new proposal from the Connecticut state colleges and universities system that would allow inmates at nine state prisons to take community college courses for free.

If this idea is approved by federal legislators, prison inmates could be able to become students at state community colleges without ever stepping on campus.

Connecticut community college students had different opinions on the subject.

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