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This article focuses on the journalism education program offered to the inmates of a prison in West Virginia. To be eligible for the course, the prisoners must be high school graduates or pass equivalency tests. Backgrounds have varied from those meeting minimal standards to those with one or more graduate degrees in science and economics. The program is funded jointly by Bethany college, West Virginia and the West Virginia Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction. About 100,000 prisoners depart federal and state prisons annually after completing their sentences or receiving probationary status or a parole. |
