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 | | Surrounded by the moneyed enclaves of Bedford Hills and Katonah, Bedford's college program has become a pet cause for the actress Glenn Close, who lives in Bedford, and the playwright Eve Ensler, the author of ''The Vagina Monologues,'' both of whom have visited the prison or taught there. |
 | | Lord, ''in order for people to understand why have college at prison, you need to focus on children.'' About 75 percent of the prison's inmates have children, and there is strong evidence that the level of education in children corresponds to their mother's, she said. |
 | | The forthcoming study of Bedford's program offers an answer to that: $2,500 is not so much when you consider that it could prevent many released inmates from returning to crime and ending up in prison again at a cost to taxpayers of at least $25,000 a year. |
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