Commentary: My students in prison have complex pasts but are now creating new stories
In mid-November, 16 men were the first incarcerated students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. As an educator in the program, I have learned that their stories are crucial for healing and growth — for them, certainly, but also for us who live in this society that practices punishment and exclusion instead of grace and restoration.
There are 406 higher education in prison programs across the country, according to the . And beyond that, complex people who sit in prisons, jails and detention facilities across the country.
