UVa class secures grant for inmate work project

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An academic exercise in grant-writing resulted in a financial boost for a Charlottesville program that provides temporary work for former inmates.

The Daily Progress reports (http://bit.ly/TNSZ1e ) that students in Christine Mahoney’s spring course at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy secured a $20,000 grant for the local Offender Aid and Restoration office.