Some Maryland inmates could soon swap their orange jumpsuits for caps and gowns under a new program at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities — where tuition costs law-abiding students upward of $60,000 per year.

Georgetown University will offer a full bachelor’s degree program for Maryland inmates beginning in the next academic year, the Washington, D.C., university announced on Wednesday. The program goes beyond the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative’s existing non-degree Prison Scholars Program, which began in 2018.

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