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Federal Funding for Incarcerated Students Returns to Rural Colleges After Two Decades


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Federal Funding for Incarcerated Students Returns to Rural Colleges After Two Decades
Comprehensive and practical in-prison education is often a bridge to employment on the outside and a means of achieving lower rates of recidivism.
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Back in 2015, President Obama created the Second Chance Pell Grant Pilot Program, which selected higher ed institutions around the country to implement higher education programs in prisons within their service area. In this photograph, Barack Obama s Education Secretary Arne Duncan, center, speaks with inmates Alphonso Coates, bottom right, and Kenard Johnson, both participants in the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership at Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup, on Friday, July 31, 2015, in Jessup, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ....

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UW Odyssey Beyond Bars program receives grant to teach college courses in Wisconsin prisons


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The University of Wisconsin–Madison Odyssey Project received a $300,000 grant from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation to continue teaching college courses to incarcerated people in Wisconsin through the Odyssey Beyond Bars program.
Noble Wray, retired Madison Chief of Police and Rennebohm board member
The funding of $100,000 over the next three years will support a pilot project that will deliver introductory college courses in English to incarcerated students who are interested in post-secondary education but are not yet enrolled in a credential-granting program. The project will also explore the potential for offering similar introductory courses in math.
“As someone working in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system for 37 years, I believe Odyssey Beyond Bars’ early results in providing a college ‘jump-start’ to incarcerated students have been impressive,” says retired Madison Chief of Police Noble Wray, who sits on the Renn ....

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