Bringing Liberal Arts Education To Prison | Jennifer Berkshire
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Bringing Liberal Arts Education To Prison | Jennifer Berkshire

Sep 18, 2025
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On this episode of Anchored, Jeremy is joined by Jennifer Berkshire, journalist and host of the education policy podcast Have You Heard? She discusses her experience bringing liberal arts education into prisons with the Boston College Prison Education Program. They explore how reading the Great Books allows inmates to grapple with sincere questions about guilt, innocence, and responsibility, and how serving a life sentence can shape a student’s educational telos.

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