Prison education programs ready to expand, but new Pell Grants slow to arrive

MARYSVILLE, OHIO — The incarcerated women looked eager as they gathered outside the building where they would attend a course on Black feminism. 

The class of 11 convened last month in a room at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) that was mostly empty except for chairs, with one big desk with a computer on it for an administrator.

“We are all hungry for knowledge,” Amber Swain, one of the inmates, told The Hill.

The course, one of several offered at the prison...