{"id":60,"date":"2008-04-15T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-04-15T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:07:01","slug":"lu-prisoner-education-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"LU prisoner-education program"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Gov. Kaine\u2019s amendments to the state budget would expand a prisoner-education program suggested by Liberty University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaine\u2019s change to the budget bill would allow every college in the state to sponsor inside-the-prison classrooms equipped with computers.<\/p>\n

When the General Assembly approved the budget bill, it contained language sponsored by Del. Kathy Byron, R-Campbell County, that specified only Liberty University would offer the program, and only at the new Green Run Correctional Center near Chatham.<\/p>\n

Kaine\u2019s amendment would extend the program statewide, to about 30 correctional centers and all public and private colleges.<\/p>\n

Liberty intends to set up a model classroom to provide post-secondary education at its own expense. About a third of the Green Run center\u2019s anticipated 2,000 inmates would qualify for the computer-based education program.<\/p>\n

Godwin said Liberty\u2019s computer-based, distance-learning program grew by 43 percent during the current academic year. Many of its students are at military bases around the world.<\/p>\n

The concepts of that distance program would be applied to the prison classroom, but with one major difference: the prison computers would not be connected to the Internet. The computers could not be used to communicate with anyone outside the prison and could not connect with other computers.<\/p>\n

The computers would operate from a server inside the prison classroom that contained nothing except course material loaded into it by the teacher, who would be a Liberty employee.<\/p>\n

Although the legal language to set up college classrooms in prisons is part of the state budget bill, no state money would be used for the program Liberty proposes.<\/p>\n

Liberty University would fund the program out of its own budget, Godwin said. The teacher, computers, and classroom furniture all would be provided by Liberty.<\/p>\n

The Green Run Correctional Center was built with classrooms that are ideal for the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Gov. Kaine\u2019s amendments to the state budget would expand a prisoner-education program suggested by Liberty University. Kaine\u2019s change to the budget bill would…<\/p>\n

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