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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


McKinley at his graduation. The Northwestern Prison Education Program’s inaugural commencement was held at Stateville Correctional Center on November 15, 2023.

‘My prison cell became my university’: Benard McKinley’s journey to civil rights law

April 2, 2024

In 2004, a judge told then 19-year-old Benard McKinley he would spend his next 97 birthdays behind bars. Last month, however, McKinley turned 39 as a free man and opened a hard-won birthday gift: an acceptance...

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