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It used to be a notoriously violent prison. Now it’s home to a first-of-its kind education program
Cal Matters ^ | November 12, 2024 | Wayne D’Orio

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california; education; prison
Mariscal went on to say that his brother had received a life sentence and been murdered while in prison. Mariscal himself was given five life sentences. He declared that he did not expect ever to be released, but finished by saying, “I can still live a meaningful life in here. Freedom is different for everybody.”


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?

1 posted on 11/12/2024 3:06:13 PM PST by artichokegrower
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Training lawyers to find loopholes to get out of prison and harrass their victims.


2 posted on 11/12/2024 3:14:27 PM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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3 posted on 11/12/2024 3:17:41 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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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.


4 posted on 11/12/2024 3:22:05 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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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.


5 posted on 11/12/2024 3:52:11 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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"He is getting a Pell Grant student scholarship to get a collage degree. Why?"

Because RATS run the State.

6 posted on 11/12/2024 3:53:24 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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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?


7 posted on 11/12/2024 4:13:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Humboldt Professor Roberto Mónico, who teaches a course called multiethnic resistance in the U.S.,

Yeah let’s get these murderers more angry


8 posted on 11/12/2024 4:47:57 PM PST by artichokegrower
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