Mich. works to get some inmates higher education

The Michigan Department of Corrections has several efforts to teach community college courses and vocational training in-house to a small number of inmates near parole. The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/13B62Wt ) Monday the effort comes after years without funding for prisoners to access higher education. Michigan is joining a pilot project that could provide evidence to back the idea of postsecondary education in prisons nationwide. There are about 42,000 inmates in Michigan's state prisons. Of those, nearly half come in with a high school diploma or GED certificate. Read more...