Rethinking the student experience in prison education programs
Rethinking the student experience in prison education programs
- October 15, 2022
- UCI LIFTED, Open Campus, Oct. 15, 2022
“I have been surprised by the challenges of the academic bureaucracy and how those rival the challenges of the prison bureaucracy,” said Keramet Reiter, criminology professor at University of California, Irvine. She is the director of LIFTED, the first prison bachelor’s program in the University of California system.
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