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How an illicit cell phone helped me take college courses from prison
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On the first day of Zoom classes, my professor went straight into content that I’m all too familiar with: the school-to-prison pipeline. Every day as a certified peer support specialist at a maximum security prison, I see the long-term impacts of poverty and a broken K-12 system in marginalized communities. I’m taking the class on a contraband cell phone. Now, I’m connected to the world.