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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Prison inmates take classes for credit through OU - Erin Barker, Ohio University
Like a lot of other Ohio University students, Sue Kennon wasn’t sure what she wanted to major in when she was starting out, and she suffered through Philosophy 120, her most challenging class. And like many others, she graduated from OU with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. The difference? She did it from inside the brick walls of the Virginia Correctional Center for Women. Since 1974 the OU College Program for the Incarcerated has allowed prisoners like Kennon from all over the country to take correspondence classes from prison. These students can take classes from 50 different subject areas that range from accounting to women’s studies. Each student is assigned to an adviser whom they communicate with through mail. The program doesn’t ask the students of what crimes they have been convicted, but Ken Armstrong, director of the OU Independent and Distance Learning Program, said it ranges all across the board.
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