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Why college in prison?
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In the mid-1990s, Congress eliminated all federal funding for college in prison. The prison system is filled with people who have never had access to higher education opportunities, the vast majority of whom come from under-resourced communities and communities of color. Freedom Education Project Puget Sound aims to change that. Program co-founder Professor Tanya Erzen and volunteer Carsen Nies ’17 talk about the benefits of providing educational opportunities to incarcerated women, for both the inmates and Puget Sound students.
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