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| Federal program offers college education to inmates in Pennsylvania |
| By post-gazette.com- Colt Shaw |
| Published: 07/11/2016 |
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HARRISBURG — With the help of a federal effort to curb recidivism, up to 115 Pennsylvania prisoners will become college students this fall. Villanova University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University and Lehigh Carbon Community College will enroll students from six state and federal prisons in Pennsylvania. Classes will take place in-facility, online and over video conference calls, Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel said in an interview. Tyrone Werts, who graduated with the help of a Pell grant from Villanova in 1992 while locked up, now works with Temple University’s Inside Out program, which runs classes at correctional facilities where university students learn alongside inmates. He said education for those behind bars can have transformative powers. Read More. |
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