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Prison education program would get a boost from pending legislation
A University of Oregon program that brings classrooms into the state’s prisons would be expanded under a bill now before the Oregon Legislature.The Prison Education Program got its start in 2007 when UO professor Steve Shankman taught a course at the Oregon State Penitentiary. Since then, hundreds of UO students and more than 1,000 incarcerated people have taken classes and participated in other UO activities inside five of Oregon’s prisons.
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