{"id":57071,"date":"2019-05-06T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=57071"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:48:23","slug":"alum-sings-bu-prison-education-programs-praises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/alum-sings-bu-prison-education-programs-praises\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Sings BU Prison Education Program&#8217;s Praises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/prisoner-safety-and-human-rights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/prisoner-safety-and-human-rights.jpg\" alt=\"Alum Sings BU Prison Education Program's Praises\" width=\"636\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56122 size-medium\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over forty years, the MET <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pep\/\">Prison Education Program<\/a> has offered incarcerated individuals in the Massachusetts prison system the opportunity to pursue undergraduate study. Jose Bou (MET\u201908) earned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/programs\/undergraduate\/interdisciplinary-studies\/\">Bachelor of Liberal Science in Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a> through the program, and recently spoke with NPR about his experiences. \u201cIt&#8217;s like being released every day. The teachers who came in were kind,\u201d he said. \u201cI ended up being valedictorian.\u201d Now released, Mr. Bou today works as a school community organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/04\/23\/716479029\/for-one-man-getting-a-degree-in-prison-was-like-being-released-every-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over forty years, the MET Prison Education Program has offered incarcerated individuals in the Massachusetts prison system the opportunity to pursue undergraduate study. Jose Bou (MET\u201908) earned his Bachelor of Liberal Science in Interdisciplinary Studies through the program, and recently spoke with NPR about his experiences. \u201cIt&#8217;s like being released every day. The teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":63690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,41,162,37,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64658,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions\/64658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}