Daily Kansan Monday, March 13, 1967
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Inmates use coin; enroll in courses
Bank robbers, saboteurs, and murderers in KU classes? Taught by KU professors? Well, yes, but not at Lawrence.
"EVEN THOUGH WE don't pull any punches as to the difficulty of the courses; most of the inmates are very eager and receptive students," Chapman said.
"Since about 90 per cent of the inmates enrolled are eventually released, we feel that KU's penitentiary courses are a benefit to society," said Martin Chapman, head of the extension courses offered at Leavenworth.
"They have an intense pride in their education and try to show the instructors they're just as sharp as the kids at KU."
Sixty-nine students are taking KU courses this semester behind bars at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Prisoners taking courses are selected by the penitentiary's education supervisor on the basis of psychological stability and intellectual ability.
THE PROGRAM, started in 1953, currently offers four once- a-week classes at the prison — Reading and Interpretation, Composition and Literature II, International Politics, and Personality 5—which cost the inmate $12 per credit hour.
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They're prisoners who've saved the small wage they earn in the penitentiary's industries to take college-level courses offered by the KU extension department.
Books are provided by the prison and instructors are paid from the inmates' fees.
Total enrollment in the prison classes for the past 13 years totals more than 1,300 students.
Some of the inmates, after being released, have continued
their education at KU or other universities and received credit for their prison classes. They can offer up to 30 hours of these courses toward a degree at KU.
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Cloudy to partly cloudy and cooler through tomorrow, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. Chance of scattered light rain or drizzle tonight. Low tonight in the mid 30's with precipitation probability 30 per cent.
Although most of the instructors are chosen from the colleges and industry close to Leavenworth, some KU professors have taught at the prison. They include Arthur Skidmore, philosophy, William Bass, anthropology, and E. Bales, education.
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