Irish firm to educate US prisoners online

Barack Obama speaks as he tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution.

Irish online education company Alison is working with US correctional services to help former prisoners secure employment, amid wider plans to reform America’s criminal justice system.

On the same week that Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison, Alison’s Mike Feerick began working with the country’s Correctional Education Association to make free workforce re-entry training available to paroled prisoners.

During last Thursday’s historic presidential visit to El ...