Prisoners Free Their Minds in Georgetown University Class Behind Bars

The prison education movement has private funding, too. On Dec. 9, Georgetown won a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the university’s prison scholars program. Launched at the D.C. jail last year, the program aims to offer courses next fall in the Maryland prison known as the Patuxent Institution, said Marc M. Howard, a Georgetown professor of government and law who oversees the effort.