Article: The Hardest Lesson on Tier 2C The Marshall Project :: Eli Hager

The Hardest Lesson on Tier 2C 
The Marshall Project :: Eli Hager   June 8, 2018
In association with This American Life

Attending school in a prison setting was unlike anything I have ever experienced. The very concept of a school in an adult jail is a total paradox. These kids are being prosecuted as adults. They are facing decades in prison and a lifelong criminal record. They are not allowed to visit their families, and are being held with thousands of grown men in a place that is fundamentally unsafe. Everything about their experience is telling them they have no future, no potential, and no worth. 

But then… there’s school?

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