‘I made a promise to myself’: How higher education is transforming lives in Wyoming prisons

Wyoming Inmates Bachelor's Degrees - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

One spring afternoon when the sun beamed down on the Wyoming Women’s Center, a prison in Lusk, six students sat in a fluorescent-lit room with laptops open before them. A brown and gold University of Wyoming banner with a cowboy on a bucking bronc hung on the far wall.

“So, who’s going first?” asked Rob Colter, a gray-bearded UW philosophy professor. “Final presentation. Create your own festival.”