Posted on 04/11/2021 11:38:29 PM PDT by CaptainK
Georgetown University has announced a new program that will allow some Maryland prison inmates to earn bachelor’s degrees.
The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will lead the five-year program. It will choose its first 25 students in the fall 2021 semester. By the program’s end, at least 125 inmates within the Maryland prison system will have earned bachelor’s degrees from the private university in Washington.
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Anarcho-tyranny.
Punish decent folks, and let scum get away with everything.
>>Punish decent folks, and let scum get away with everything.<<
Not “get away.” REWARD!
And the Dems will fast track and appoint them to the Supreme’s via Zoom.
True, I stand corrected.
They push ‘prison education’ a lot, but it’s weird to me. Anyplace that would need degreed employees also is extremely unlikely to hire an ex-con.
It’s just feel-good measures, to me.
In the soft “sciences” the liberals lov. Nothing with any math, of course.
I worked in uniform in New York State’s prison system for 25 years. Back when I started in Auburn Prison in 1980, and up until George Pataki ended the program, inmates were able to get a Bachelor’s Degree from Syracuse University. They were eligible for State TAP grants, and Federal Pell grants, while those of us law abiding citizens had to pay our own way if we wanted to get a college degree, which I did.
I guess if you want a college degree and can’t afford college, there is not another alternative. It includes not only college, but free room and board as well.
It is just getting too crazy.
paid for in full by you while you also pay for your children’s education
I had to join the Army to help pay for college. I guess I should have just robbed a liquor store.
They are not getting away with anything. They are in prison undergoing full punishment for their crimes. They are being given a chance to rehabilitate themselves should they demonstrate the wisdom and the discipline to take advantage of the opportunity being offered to them, and so to live better lives, productive lives, AFTER they have paid their debt to society.
What is the matter with you people?
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Yeah, maybe they can get law degrees and be installed by George Soros as DAs. Plenty of murderers go on to become pillars of society, these days.
“They push ‘prison education’ a lot, but it’s weird to me. Anyplace that would need degreed employees also is extremely unlikely to hire an ex-con.”
If you KNOW they’re an ex-con. In SF, as I understand it, with very limited exceptions, they no longer have to identify their criminal past on applications. So, by the time you run a full (costly) criminal background check and find the conviction, you’re probably stuck with the person, unless you come up with a really good excuse for rejecting the felon at such a late time in the application process. And, needless to say, this is being pushed by the left throughout the country.
Just another, relatively small, piece of the collapse of America.
Juvie is just boarding school with a fast track to GED. Now they can get a post graduate degree. When the Democrats open all the prisons how many inmates finish the education programs?
A friend of mine got a job teaching construction skills classes to Maryland inmates. Most of them never bothered to show up but it was clear from the management that he was expected to give them credit anyway. He wanted to help them have a marketable skill upon release.
This program is just a virtue signal that will disappear within a few months.
>>They are not getting away with anything. They are in prison undergoing full punishment for their crimes. They are being given a chance to rehabilitate themselves should they demonstrate the wisdom and the discipline to take advantage of the opportunity being offered to them, and so to live better lives, productive lives, AFTER they have paid their debt to society.
What is the matter with you people?<<
No matter how you cut it, the formula is:
crime + time = prestigious degree program
For most of us non-EEO schmoes it is:
grades + extra curricular activity + money = prestigious degree program
I am for rehabilitation but it should NOT be for a sheepskin at that level.
How many of them, under normal circumstances, get into Georgetown with what is basically a tuition free scholarship?
I’m guessing zero.
And what is wrong with you?
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