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The Bible Behind Bars

“This Bible … it’s just whack!”

The young man, a prisoner at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup, is discussing a reading assignment with Jerome Copulsky, a professor of religious studies at Goucher College in Baltimore.  The in-prison class is part of a new program set up by the Department of Education to provide “high-level educational opportunities” for incarcerated adults.

By Steve Rempe
October 22, 2015
David | Department of Education | Goucher College | Jerome Copulsky | Jessup | Maryland | Maryland Correctional Institution | volunteer

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