What we can learn from Yale’s Prison Education Initiative

Yale College has celebrated the graduation of several US Prison inmates who took part in the school’s new education initiative. The program’s success points to a future of sufficient prison reform.

Thanks to a new education initiative by Yale College and New Haven University, US inmates like Marcus Harvin are pursuing their dreams of law school.

Harvin is now a fellow at Yale college. He’s also a parolee, recently released from maximum security prison for a six-year drunk driving sentence.

The prison education initiative in which he took part will change Harvin’s life, and the lives of millions of prison inmates worldwide — should the success of the program inspire other institutions beyond the US.

Yale alum Zelda Roland launched the initiative in 2016, drawing inspiration from similar program’s she had worked with at Wesleyan University.

The system provides student-inmates with an opportunity to earn two and four-year college degrees from 15 schools nationwide.

‘We believe that we’re transforming not just individual student’s lives, but also the institutions that we work with, both the…