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Meet Northwestern’s 1st class of incarcerated graduates

The men in Northwestern University’s Prison Education Program have been called many things — mostly inmates. But these residents of a maximum security state prison in Illinois have been adding new titles: student, scholar, author, and now, college graduate. Chicago PBS member station WTTW’s Brandis Friedman reports.

Meet Northwestern’s 1st class of incarcerated graduates

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