The 21st Show

Barriers To Getting An Education While In Prison

 

Seven men completed an entrepreneurship program at Hill Correctional Center last April. But waitlists to take classes like this are long and preference is given to those who have the shortest sentences. Lee V. Gaines/Illinois Newsroom

Guests: Lee Gaines, education reporter for WILL's Illinois Newsroom. Tim Barnett, professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University 

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