Posted on 11/12/2024 3:06:13 PM PST by artichokegrower
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt have spent more than three years trying to set up the first bachelor’s degree program at a maximum-security prison in California.
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This guy murdered two people, received five life sentences, was originally sentenced to death. He is getting a Pell Grant student scholarship to get a collage degree. Why?
Training lawyers to find loopholes to get out of prison and harrass their victims.
If the classes truly teaches a man to say and believe what Mariscal said, then it’s doing good. If it reduces violence, it’s doing good.
I think a trade might benefit prisoners who will be released as much as or more as a college degree, but machines and materials can make weapons.
OTOH, a course like “multiethnic resistance in the U.S.” would not seem to promote a sense of personal resposibility.
New York State’s prison system had a bachelor degree program from Syracuse University when I went to work at Auburn prison in 1980. Republican New York State Governor George Pataki got rid of all that crap.
Because RATS run the State.
RE: used to be a notoriously violent prison....
May have been misunderstood prisoners.
Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy about serial killer Grossberger:
All this time did anyone think about just sitting down with him and talking with him?
Humboldt Professor Roberto Mónico, who teaches a course called multiethnic resistance in the U.S.,
Yeah let’s get these murderers more angry
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