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California has long offered prison inmates the opportunity to take community college courses. The idea of college in prison has now expanded to eight programs that allow incarcerated people to earn college degrees.
Cal State Los Angeles was the first to graduate students as part of a longstanding program at CSU which includes two new programs for women at prisons in Chowchilla and Chino.
This year, the University of California at Irvine campus joined to grant bachelor’s degrees to incarcerated students in San Diego. And starting this fall, CSU Dominguez Hills will begin the state’s first master’s degree program in prison.
Supporters say a college degree dramatically reduces the chance that people released from prison will return.
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For the four men whose stories are told in this documentary, just the chance to earn the degree made it possible for them to see themselves living a different life outside of prison.
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Private Mount Tamalpais Community College is the first accredited institution created within a state prison, San Quentin.
Incarcerated students now have opportunity to earn master’s degrees from Cal State campus.
With the promise of higher education, incarcerated people are working to change their lives on the inside. Of California’s 34 state prisons, eight offer bachelor degree programs.
Take a look at the eight bachelor’s degree programs at California state prisons. The state is expanding its college-in-prison program among its 34 prisons.
For the four men whose stories are told in this documentary, just the chance to earn the degree made it possible for them to see themselves living a different life outside of prison.
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