For incarcerated people, education is transformative. A 2013 study by the RAND Corporation found that people in prison who experienced postsecondary education are 43 percent less likely to end up in prison again. Despite this evidence, only 11 percent of incarcerated people in state prisons and 24 percent of those in federal prisons have completed at least some postsecondary education.
Here in Massachusetts, colleges and universities are taking a closer look at prison education. As part of
MIT’s Educational Justice Institute,
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College Behind Bars
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