More people in New Hampshire’s prisons will soon be able to earn their college degrees.

The White Mountain Community College was one of five schools in New England to win a $100,000 prison education grant last week. The money will help it expand the associate degree programs it began in the Berlin prison in 2023 to the men’s and women’s prisons in Concord.

The state’s four-year colleges, including the University of New Hampshire, also plan to join the program.

Leah Machiejewski, the White Mountain Community College’s vice president of academic affairs, said this year’s graduates have asked to be tutors for incoming students. They asked their math teacher to give the commencement address.

And faculty have said teaching inmates has reinvigorated their love for teaching.

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