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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 11 > Engaging inmates via a chance at learning

Engaging inmates via a chance at learning

State bolsters education, hopes for drop in recidivism

By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin
June 11, 2008

Aaron Ledford, 36, agreed to take GED classes because he figured they had to be more interesting than sitting in his cell.

The Deer Ridge Correctional Institution inmate and eighth-grade dropout had a hard time composing a letter, had no idea how to convert decimals to fractions and hated the....

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