Dozens of individuals who are incarcerated in Maryland will be offered a chance to earn a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. According to a press release, the program is part of the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative. Founded in 2016, the program was created to address the national crisis of mass incarceration. African-Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white Americans, according to the NAACP. Under the initiative, the school will welcome a cohort of 25 students at the maximum-security Patuxent Institution in Jessup, Maryland. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services signed a memorandum to help implement the […]
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