HBCUs are building a new prison-to-college pipeline
Historically black colleges and universities are developing new pathways for formerly incarcerated people to earn a degree and transition
When he was 21, Stanley Andrisse hit rock bottom.
"I was sitting in a courtroom facing 20 years to life and had this prosecutor telling me that I had no hope for changing," Andrisse says. He was convicted on three felony counts and spent the next few years in a Missouri prison.
He says his 21-year-old self could never have imagined his life today: Andrisse is now an endocrinologist, scientist and professor
