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MO: Innovative Program Brings Education to Inmates, Employees at Maximum Security Facility

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hearst Foundation Awards $150,000 to Saint Louis University Prison Initiative Innovative Program Brings Education to Inmates, Employees at Maximum Security Facility http://www.slu.edu/x38609.xml August 16, 2010- Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS ? Saint Louis University has received a $150,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation to launch the nation's first in-prison degree program for both inmates and employees. This spring, the University will offer an associate of arts degree to 20 inmates and 20 staff members at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Corrections Center. The effort is an extension of the University's SLU Prison Initiative, which began three years ago at the state maximum security facility in Bonne Terre, Mo...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).