By Jamie Perez May 18, 2021 | 11:34 AM MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin inmates with a hunger for knowledge and a desire to dip into the world of college education will now have more access to do so. The University of Wisconsin– Madison’s Odyssey Beyond Bars Program received a $300,000 grant from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation to teach college courses in Wisconsin prisons. The program was created 18 years ago as a humanities jumpstart course for low income families who want to continue education and recently entered the prison system to expand their educational opportunities. Odyssey Beyond Bars teaches for-credit and noncredit UW Madison courses. The first for-credit course, English 100, was taught by Odyssey’s Co-Director Kevin Mullen.