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Formerly incarcerated student credits prison college and mentorship for career turnaround
Summary
At the Untapped Talent Summit, Jared Campbell described how prison-based college courses and a legislator mentorship helped him enroll at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and land a software-engineering job; Tennessee’s model and related laws were presented as examples Louisiana could adapt.
Jared Campbell, a program participant in Tennessee’s prison college initiative, told attendees at the Untapped Talent Summit that institutional education and hands-on mentorship were decisive in his transition from incarceration to stable employment.
Campbell recounted earning an associate degree while incarcerated, applying to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga after release and being rejected at first. “I applied, and I was immediately rejected from the university,” Campbell said. He described how a legislator who had mentored him intervened with university and system leaders to…
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