The author and journalist will address the first incarcerated students to receive bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university Award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will deliver the commencement address for the Northwestern Prison Education Program. This graduation marks the first time incarcerated students in the United States will be conferred a bachelor’s degree from
Anthony Ehlers is a Communications Fellow for the Northwestern Prison Education Program and a recent graduate with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Northwestern University. In 2002, Anthony’s sentence was commuted from the death penalty to life in prison. He is currently imprisoned at Stateville Correctional Center. He wrote the following essay to commemorate World
