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The quoted portion title of this post is the headline of this recent
New York Times commentary authored by Elizabeth Hinton.  Here are excerpts (with a little commentary at the end from me):
Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities. Instead of languishing in cells, incarcerated people sat in classrooms and learned about climate science or poetry just like college students.  Or even with them.
This would be a boon to prisoners across the country, a vast majority of whom do not have a high school diploma. And it could help shrink our prison population. While racial disparities in arrests and convictions are alarming, education level is a far stronger predictor of future incarceration than race. ....

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