Behind the high walls and twisted barbed-wire fences of the Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto, 102 women received their high school GED diplomas Wednesday in a ceremony like others around the state lately designed to encourage inmates to pursue education.
But this graduation was different. It marked more than 2,000 Georgia prisoners earning the diplomas in the past year—a show of progress for the latest phase of Gov. Nathan Deal‘s criminal justice reform movement. And the governor gave the keynote speech.
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