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Even under normal conditions, this examination can make a student nervous. But these 18 students may feel especially fearful. They are serving sentences in a top-security prison. And if they do well on the test, they might get to leave the prison.

During the test the officers sit at school desks at Naivasha Prison in Kenyan. These prisoners have writing tools and plastic devices used in mathematics. The classroom looks like any other except that the students are wearing prison uniforms.

David Noah Okwemba has just finished the examination for history and biology. He says he wants people to know that the prisoners are no longer criminals. Instead, he says they are students.

Prisoners may be released early to go to university or find employment.

Patrick Mwenda is head officer at Naivasha prison. He says nine prisoners have been released since 2008 as a result of their schooling and tests. So far, the releases have gone only to prisoners sentenced to short terms.

Mr. Mwenda admits the difficulties of getting a high score. But he says the prison urges students with studying hard. He says doing this would help them have a good record in the future.

More than half of the 3,000 inmates at the Naivasha prison are involved in the school program. The officers themselves choose the subjects and decide the content of the studies.

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