It’s graduation day for 33-year-old prison inmate DJ Coomer at the Branchville Correctional Facility in Branchville, Ind. He’s wearing his beige prison uniform, not a graduation robe. He’ll have to hand over his diploma to the prison secretary before he leaves the graduation ceremony, and at the end of the day, he’ll still be in [...]
Even offenders who leave prison with college degrees or high school diplomas face highly uncertain job prospects after returning to the outside world.
Lawmakers barred offenders from receiving state scholarships in 2011, cutting off the primary source of funding for a program allowing Indiana prisoners to earn degrees behind bars.
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