Teaching Neuroscience in Prison
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Atlantic
April 11, 2016

A classroom is pictured in the programs building during a media tour of the Thomson Correctional Center Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 in Thomson, Ill. President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to acquire the underused state prison in Thomson earlier this month to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

“Two Cornell instructors brought their college course to the inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison, in upstate New York. They were accustomed to pre-med types; they found philosophers.”

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