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Inmates at Work on GED
School is on in the summer, for inmates at the La Crosse County jail. Through a program involving Western Technical College, prisoners in the jail can work on their high school equivalency. The jail educator at Western, Willa MacKenzie, tells a county committee that about a dozen inmates are taking classes now three days per week though she doesn’t believe any of those yet have taken their GED. MacKenzie says education in jail helps many inmates learn skills they might be having trouble with outside jail, such as vocabulary.
