Higher Education Thriving at CCI, Influencing Outcomes for Other Cerro Coso Students

Cara Jackson of the Tehachapi News interviewed Dr. Fulks in an article highlighting Cerro Coso College’s prison education program. The article explores the program’s growth and success. Here’s a snippet:

Inmates at the California Correctional Institution are taking full advantage of a second chance— improving their lives through education, changing the current environment in prison and planning for the future through Cerro Coso's Community College's Prison Education Program.

“It's an unbelievable transformation,” Patrick, a current inmate at CCI, wrote in a letter one of his professors shared with Tehachapi News. “College has transformed the way many prisoners are now serving their sentences. Where doing time once meant gambling and getting high to avoid boredom, it now means hurrying to class, meeting with study groups, flipping through textbooks or cramming for a midterm.”

Read the full article below!