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    Earning a master's degree in prison now possible in 'groundbreaking' California program

    Decades ago as a little boy growing up in Santa Rosa, California, Luke Scott made a pledge to his mom that he would graduate from college one day. Despite being sentenced to life in prison for murder without the possibility of parole in 1988, Scott kept his promise. Scott, 60, earned his first of eight associate's degrees from Coastline Community College in 2010 while at Salinas Valley State ...
    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times Nov 03, 2023 6 minutes
    Student Luke Scott is working on a master's in humanities, taking advantage of a program that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is rolling out in partnership with California State, Dominguez Hills, on Sept. 6, 2023, in Ione, California.

    Decades ago as a little boy growing up in Santa Rosa, California, Luke Scott made a pledge to his mom that he would graduate from college one day.

    Despite being sentenced to life in prison for murder without the possibility of parole in 1988, Scott kept his promise.

    Scott, 60, earned his first of eight associate's degrees from Coastline Community College in 2010 while at Salinas Valley State Prison. His mother kept a copy of his first degree hanging on the wall so she could boast of her son's accomplishments. Twelve years later, long after his mother died in 2011, Scott went on to earn his bachelor's degree in communications from Sacramento State while at Mule Creek State Prison.

    He isn't stopping there.

    Scott is one of 33 students enrolled in what the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR, has called a "groundbreaking" two-year master's program in humanities, a collaboration with California State, Dominguez Hills that launched in September.

    "When I got into the bachelor's program, it was like my ceiling was raised a little bit," Scott

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