Lane Murray was an educator who helped found the correctional education system in prisons in

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

Windham School District

In 1969, the Texas Board of Corrections created Windham School District, the country's first correctional school district. Murray became the first superintendent of the newly established Windham School District at a time when others were skeptical prison education would decrease prisoners' recidivism rates.

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