prison education

Midday host Tom Hall visited the Goucher College Prison Education program in 2014. Nearly 10 years later, Tom discusses how the program has evolved.

We’ll go On the Record with the director of Goucher College’s Prison Education Partnership. Students at two Maryland prisons can take a variety of courses, and get support once they leave prison. Plus, a G-PEP graduate, on pursuing his Master’s at Hopkins.

Since 2012, the Goucher Prison Education Project Partnership has taught hundreds of students behind bars. We ask executive director Eliza Cornejo and William Freeman--the first participant who went on to earn a master’s degree--how college in prison touches the lives of students.

Behind the bolts and locks at Jessup Correctional Institution, some prisoners are making a bid for college. An experimental program by the US Department…