It was 2024 and Doyle F. was eight years into a 10-year sentence, the remaining stretch filling his mind. “I thought that I would just do my time, do the best I could, get out.”
But that year, Lewis-Clark State College began offering classes at the Idaho State Correctional Center south of Boise, and Doyle jumped at the opportunity. He continued the college education that he began to pursue nearly two decades earlier, on the Idaho State University campus. He applied his Idaho State general education credits toward associate’s degrees in liberal arts and business administration.
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The 16 May graduates at Idaho State Correctional Center are in prison for a variety of violent and non-violent crimes — including murder, sexual offenses, drug trafficking and grand theft, according to an EdNews search of inmate records. One of the 16 graduates has already been released on parole. Most of the graduates are likely to be released from prison at some point, and several have parole or release dates in the next few months or years…