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‘Getting out, staying out': Prison graduation prepares Vacaville inmates for life outside

YOU WOULD THINK that the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, which is the current home of serial killer Ed Kemper and ...
WBAL-TV

First graduation held for Goucher Prison Education Partnership

EXTRA SPECIAL. THE GOUCHER PRISON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP HELD ITS. FIRST GRADUATION AT THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. TWO STUDENTS RECEIVED THEIR BACHELOR’S DEGREES. JANET JOHNSON IS ONE OF THEM. SHE GOT ...

For youth earning diplomas in prison, the ‘accomplishment is bigger because of those struggles,’ speaker Mitchell S. Jackson says

When the graduates moved their tassels from left to right and walked across the stage to receive their diplomas, family ...
Yale Environment 360

YPEI graduation marks first B.A. presentation in a Connecticut prison

Last week, a program led by the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall (YPEI) and the University of New Haven (UNH) held a graduation ceremony at a Connecticut prison, at which 12 ...
Yahoo

Caps, gowns and barbed wire: First-ever college graduation in prison was joyous celebration

IONIA — His tassel flipped from right to left, his name called from the podium and the grip-and-grin snapshot with Calvin University's president taken, James Sturdivant slowly sank back into his seat ...
Vallejo Times Herald

From prison to graduation, a ‘full circle’ moment of hope

It was no ordinary high school or college graduation, without pomp but plenty of circumstance. Clad in a turquoise blue prison shirt, Douglas Woodall, his job training certificate in hand, walked up ...
The Vindicator

Youngstown prison inmates make their mark on graduation day

Jesse Driver III, left, holds his diplomas Tuesday as Virginia Maher of Ashland University discusses Driver’s educational accomplishments while a prisoner at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on ...