This fall, Jessica Henry will join the millions of people starting school again. She’s set to graduate in the spring, with a bachelor’s degree in social work and a double minor in business and psychology. But her experience in classrooms on Spring Arbor University’s campus in Michigan now is vastly different from where she was when she started col ...

When Jared (who asked to be identified by only his first name) began taking college classes at Turney Center Industrial Complex, a prison in central Tennessee, it was not a love for learning that motivated him—that would come later. Before Turney, Jared had been incarcerated in a private prison. “It’s not very equitable,” Jared shared, reflecting ...