Just a few months after Georgia State University announced last spring that it would end its college program for incarcerated students, Auburn University’s program was suspended indefinitely after the Alabama Department of Corrections barred college staff from entering the state prisons due to alleged security concerns.
The suspension of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project – the only bachelor’s program in Alabama’s prison system – means that more than 50 students who have spent years working on their degrees have had to put their education on hold with little information about when and if they’ll be able to finish. Additionally, more than 25,000 men and women incarcerated in Alabama no longer have access to any opportunity to earn an academic degree.
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That’s terrible. Sounds like Auburn administration actually wants to educate these men and women, but the ADoC is making up some bullshit excuse(s) to keep them out. Disgusting.
