EMU offers women a chance to earn bachelor’s degrees in prison

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by Kim Kozlowski, Bridge Michigan

Five years after the first man earned a bachelor’s degree while imprisoned in Michigan — and nearly 150 bachelor’s degrees earned since — women who are serving time are catching up.

This fall, a dozen incarcerated women received bachelor’s degrees from Eastern Michigan University at a ceremony at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the state’s only prison for women. They were the first cohort of women at the prison to receive their bachelor’s degrees while incarcerated…

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