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Washington University A stack of Washington University diplomas awaits recipients at the Prison Education Project commencement in 2019 at the Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Missouri. Beginning this fall, incarcerated women in Missouri will have the opportunity to work towards earning a degree from Washington University. Wash U. announced this week that its Prison Education Project won a $980,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to start its first women’s prison education program. People incarcerated at the Women’s Eastern Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri can begin taking classes in August. It will be the first time an on-site college program exists at the prison. The grant also provides funding for technology to host the classes virtually as well as expanding reentry programs at the prison.

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