The Harvard team holds a number of titles, as well as being reigning US champions. But they were no match for the inmates, who also took down the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point and the University of Vermont. In fact, the feud with West Point is now for real. But the team at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility has only been competing for slightly more than a year.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the inmates were educated at nearby Bard College as part of a special initiative that is gathering steam.
The college prides itself on approaching inmate education as uncompromisingly as it approaches that of its campus students. "Students in the prison are held to the exact same standards, levels of rigor and expectation as students on Bard's main campus," executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative, Max Kenner, told the AP. "Those students are serious. They are not condescended to by their faculty."
The initiative operates in six NY prisons.
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