Changing course

Economics professor helps inmates re-enter society and rebuild their lives

IN THE WORLD, America has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated but is only sixth among developed countries when it comes to college degree attainment. And New Jersey has among the worst ratios of corrections-to-higher ed spending in the United States: It spends almost twice as much on prisons as it does on colleges and universities.

Nancy Wolff does not cite any of these statistics when she talks about her work with the women of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, NJ. She talks about people.

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