Columbia’s Prison Education Program featured on CBS

Why NY is expanding top tier higher education in prisons

JULY 9, 2016, 8:11 AM|President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison last year as he sought to build support for criminal justice reform. While it seemed to have bipartisan support in Congress this year, it now appears to be stalled amid the intensifying election campaign. But one state is moving ahead with a controversial plan to expand a rehabilitation program for some of its prison inmates. Mark Albert reports. -CBS News

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