Education effort meant to keep SC inmates from returning to prison gets $1.3M boost

Education effort meant to keep SC inmates from returning to prison gets $1.3M boost

A $1.3 million grant to a Columbia nonprofit will help better support South Carolina colleges' work educating people incarcerated inside the state's prisons.

Education effort meant to keep SC inmates from returning to prison gets $1.3M boost | Benedict College | Columbia, South Carolina

COLUMBIA — A group of South Carolina colleges are set to expand their efforts around prison education thanks to $1.3 million in new grant funding aimed at supporting students once they’re released.  The grant money will allow Healthy Routines, a Columbia-based nonprofit, to offer more technical assistance and hire four new academic reentry coordinators to support the technical colleges and historically Black colleges and universities that make u…

A Midlands college joins effort to help inmates earn their degrees - ABC Columbia

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — A Midlands college is joining the effort to help those incarcerated in South Carolina earn their degrees. Monday the HBCU Benedict College announced it has received a two million dollar grant through the South Carolina Coalition for Higher Education and Ascendium. Officials say the opportunity for an education can increase an inmate’s chances of them not returning to prison. Other colleges also taking part in the program in…