Keeping the faith: Make prison education permanent

Published September 8, 2019 4:02am ET



Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, toured the Westville Correctional Center in Westville, Indiana, on Aug. 15 as guests of Indiana Corrections Commissioner Robert Carter and Warden John Galipeau.

Housed inside this correctional institution is an in-prison college education program taught by more than 35 professors from Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame and funded in part by the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program.

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