Pilot Program Lets Inmates Earn 2-Year Degree

In 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.

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