A month after the Harvard debate team took first place in the USA, the Champions, Harvard lost the competition team of the new York prison of strict regime, reports The Guardian.
Inmates at the prison, Eastern Correctional Facility, in which those who are engaged in the neighboring teachers College formed a debate club and invited the Champions of the country to visit.
Despite the fact that team prison within two years of its existence, the club has already triumphed over such prestigious teams as the team of the University of Vermont and the national team of West point, this time the prisoners faced a particularly difficult task: they had to advocate for what public schools should be given the right to refuse entry to students whose parents entered the United States illegally.
Prison team, despite the extremely negative attitude to the subject of the debate, found the arguments that came to mind students in the ivy League.
