Piedmont Virginia Community College recently received federal approval for its educational programs benefitting prison inmates, making it the first college in Virginia to achieve such status.

For close to 20 years, the school just outside Charlottesville has offered college-level courses through its Higher Education in Prison Program for those imprisoned at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, Buckingham Correctional Center and Dillwyn Correctional Center.

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In 2019, PVCC was selected to participate in the Second Chance Pell Experiment, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate the efficacy of using previously withheld Pell Grant funds to educate eligible students in the prison system.

Now, the co

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