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| More Texas Inmates Are Getting High School Diplomas in Prison. Here's How. |
| By tpr.org- Kate Groetzinger |
| Published: 10/16/2017 |
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Stephanie Garcia is a high school student. She’s also a 24-year-old inmate at the Lockhart Correctional Facility, a minimum-security women’s prison in Central Texas. Outside, her life was hectic, but here, every day is the same. “I go to sleep at about 4 o'clock in the morning,” Garcia says. “I sleep ’til about 12:30, get up, do my hygienes, take a shower, go straight to school from 1 to 4. I eat, wait for mail till about 5:30, 6. I take a nap. I wake up at 9 and then I stay up until like 4 in the morning. I do my work, I read, and then I do it all over again. So the only thing I really do is school.” Garcia is one of 12 inmates enrolled in Goodwill’s high school program in the prison. She completed four classes in six weeks last spring. She’s enrolled in four more right now. At this pace, she thinks she’ll be able to graduate by the time she comes up for parole next year. Read More. |
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