By Vanessa Rancano, KQED, December 15, 2020
UC Irvine and the state prison system have reached a deal to create the first University of California bachelor’s degree program behind bars.
Since California opened the door for community colleges to teach in prisons in 2014, some 2,000 incarcerated men and women across the state have earned associate degrees, said Brant Choate, director of rehabilitative programs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. But opportunities to earn more advanced degrees are largely limited to correspondence courses of sometimes questionable quality.
Choate argues changing that is in everyone’s interest.
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