Last year, Marcus Harvin had two graduations. The first? With his class at the University of New Haven. The second? With the people with whom he began his journey into higher education: The men imprisoned at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institute, where Harvin had spent six years, two months and two weeks. He got special permission to go back and join his friends at the prison's graduation last June.
"The same place they strip-searched me is the room where I met the governor," Harvin says.