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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a “lifer,” Fordham wasn't eligible to participate in prison education programs, but he fought back and earned a diploma, vocational certificates, and an associate degree from Miami Dade College. He received his associate degree with 18 other graduates, all of whom wore caps and gowns over their prison uniforms.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Philip’s College, a two-year institution, to pursue a Biomedical Engineering and Technology Associate’s. I kept recalling the summer of 2013 when I worked at an industrial lumber yard for eight hours daily in the blistering heat. I’m the first in our family to attend college and earn an Associate degree. My parents cried.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Bowie State University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Maryland, created a tuition-free sociology bachelor's degree program with an optional certificate in entrepreneurship for incarcerated people at Jessup Correctional Institution. Department of Education to Pell Grants for the first time since 1994.

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