The graduates received their degrees at an Illinois prison facility about 130 miles from the college’s Evanston campus
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- Eighteen women in the Illinois Department of Corrections received degrees from Northwestern University on Oct. 16
- “There’s nobody like you,” Nancy Pelosi,former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, said onstage to the graduates
- They are the first incarcerated women to earn bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university in the United States
Incarcerated women in Illinois celebrated a history-making achievement.
Eighteen women in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) received bachelor’s degrees from Northwestern University during an Oct. 16 commencement ceremony at the Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center prison facility, which is about 130 miles from the college’s Evanston campus…