It’s not every day you hear about someone earning a law degree while serving time in prison. In fact, it had never happened before.
On Monday, June 8, a pair of Minnesota inmates made history after becoming the first incarcerated students in the United States to earn law degrees from an American Bar Association-accredited law school while still behind bars.
Maureen Onyelobi and Jeffery Young recently graduated from Mitchell Hamline School of Law while serving their sentences at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee…