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The first-of-its kind bachelor program at one of the nation's most notorious prisons is being offered — to those inmates who qualify — through Cal Poly Humboldt.

Pelican Bay State Prison Warden Stephen Smith credits the program with helping to change the atmosphere at the supermax facility that houses some of the state's most violent prisoners

Student inmates like Salvador Jacobo insist that the program is giving him the critical thinking skills needed to better understand “why the hell I ended up the way I did”

Mark Taylor was eight years into his life sentence for a gang-related murder when, one afternoon in 2005, he says something like a miracle took place in his cell.

Together with the other inmates at California’s Ironwood State Prison, he’d been ordered back to his

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