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Liberal-Arts Colleges Reach Minds Behind Bars. How to Teach the Liberal Arts Behind Bars 1

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Liberal-Arts Colleges Reach Minds Behind Bars How to Teach the Liberal Arts Behind Bars 1 February 6, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education By Lauren Sieben John Hammers spent the past 12 years behind bars. His daily routine consisted mostly of playing pinochle or spades and watching sitcoms on television. Serving time for burglary, he wanted to better himself, but he had no outlet. Although he was a GED tutor, opportunities to focus on his own education were scarce. He held a job in the library at the Newton Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in central Iowa with more than 1,100 inmates. The job paid 45 cents an hour?top scale for prison wages?but nowhere near enough to cover a college education: "How are you going to pay for college classes making pennies an hour?" he asked...continue to full post

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