Earning A 2-Year Degree While Serving A 6-Year Sentence
βIn 1978 Waymann Washington had two major things going for him: As a young man, he had his whole life in front of him. He’d also been granted a scholarship to go to college and play football. Two months into school, he dropped out. Right now he’s serving a six-year sentence at the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, for drug trafficking. And at 59, he’s found college again. Because of a pilot program introduced by the Obama administration in 2015, inmates across the country, like Washington, have access to federal Pell grants to take college courses and earn certificates, associates and bachelor’s degrees while serving out their sentences.β