Starting this fall, people incarcerated at two prisons in the Mississippi Delta will get the opportunity to work toward a 4-year-degree through a new Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) program.
The initiative has been dubbed the Prison Educational Partnership Program (PEPP), and it’s associated with the Second Chance Pell Experiment — an initiative Barack Obama launched back in 2015 that aims to “encourage participation in college and other postsecondary education” among people who are behind bars, according to Investopedia.
The Itta Bena, Mississippi, college’s PEPP initiative brings the Magnolia State’s total number of prison college programs up to seven, though MVSU is the first Mississippi HBCU on this list.
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