Washington University's Prison Education Project is just one of scores of programs across the country that grant liberal arts degrees to incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people. Prison education improves critical thinkingCarl Brock (left), Mark Boyd and Torey Adams congratulate a fellow student. NYU's prison education program also offers other opportunities generally available to college students, such as counseling and workshops on financial literacy and leadership development. Henke said he doesn't see Washington University's prison education program as a community service project. That attitude showed at the graduation ceremony, where nothing in the program indicated that the graduates were in prison.

Source: CNN May 26, 2019 00:22 UTC