A change taking place right now has the potential to do more good within U.S. prisons than any policy in a generation.
College-in-prison should be rigorous, holding students to the same standards they would experience on campus. Classes should, wherever possible, be in person rather than remote. Above all, educators should not assume that people in prison are any less capable and curious than other students.
College-in-prison was once common in the United States. Its origin is a series of fits and starts through the first half of the 20th century. Then in the 1970s, with the creation of Pell Grants and the dramatic expansion of the prison population, hundreds of college-in-prison programs began to emerge nationwide.
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