Our world gone insane!-----Baskin-Robbins bandit earned degree, spoke at commencement from prison | The College Fix

Baskin-Robbins bandit earned degree, spoke at commencement from prison | The College Fix
"...Yusuf Pierce was sentenced to 19 years and four months for 
robbing a Baskin-Robbins and leading police on a high speed chase while already on probation in 2010.
In May, Pierce remotely addressed the graduating class of Pitzer, an elite liberal arts college in Claremont, California, with tuition of about $70,000-a year.
...Pierce was originally charged with four counts of second degree robbery, kidnaping, false imprisonment, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, evasion of the police while operating a vehicle, hit and run, and resisting arrest, according to court documents. The probation officer’s report said (read it!!)...The sentence of 19 years and four months was bargained down from the prosecutor’s initial offer of 22 years, according to court documents.
...According to one of his professors, to earn his degree, Pierce’s work included writing poetry and painting. 

His spring courses included a class on “feminism for men” and “mass incarceration,” according to NPR.
During his time in prison for armed robbery, Pierce, who is African-American, was also able to hold a virtual art exhibit at Pitzer, with work focused on “the enduring struggle for black liberation” and the “freedom fighters that…are not widely known.”...Read all.