Home Congress Removing education barriers is key to success for formerly incarcerated people Congress Removing education barriers is key to success for formerly incarcerated people By cjordan@thehill.com Vivian D. Nixon Opinion Contributor - May 6, 2019 17 0 SHARE Facebook Twitter The United States has the largest incarceration system in the world. Yet, the use of incarceration as the first line of defense against public and individual harm has proved to be woefully ineffective. Of the 1.5 million people in our nation’s…