Tony Acevedo spent more than 13 years incarcerated at Otisville Correctional Facility in New York, an experience that left him doubtful of opportunities promising a better future.
Still, he had long been curious about going to college. That opportunity arose in 2022, when he enrolled in the City University of New York’s Prison-to-College Pathways Pipeline program, which offers incarcerated students the chance to earn an associate degree.
“It all started with a poster posted in the housing unit where I used to live in Otisville Correctional Facility that said if you want to go to college, you can come to an information session,” Acevedo said. “I was very skeptical at the time. I was incarcerated for 13 years and I’m like, ‘Well, let’s see if this is true,’ because there’s a lot of distrust in the system.”
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