Alt Credits & Degree For An Inmate

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I know a young man who is currently incarcerated, and we are not sure how long he will be in for. He was in juvenile detention before, for about 4 years, and they really did not do him any service. He comes from a challenging background and still could not read when he left juvenile detention. Now he is in jail facing his first felony, and possibly three years in prison. When he went into jail most recently he did not have his high school diploma, but my understanding is that he finished it. He wants to get into something related to aviation/cars such as mechanics. I would like to see him go to college, and have talked to him about this. He is interested. I have reason to believe he might be able to get into Spartan College with a decent scholarship or grant, although TESU might be an option too, but if he is convicted he might not be able to attend for another three years. 

This brings me to the idea of trying to get him to gain credits while incarcerated. The facility he is currently in does not seem to have any system set-up currently for inmates to gain college credits. They also just instituted a new rule that they are not allowing mail, so everything goes to a different location where it is scanned, emailed to the facility, and then printed and given to the inmates. I think there is a four page limit, but I am not sure if they would have that for correspondence study. They also have digital tablets, but I am not sure if inmates can be given access to college or alt credit websites to study from. 

Does anyone have any advice or experience about this?

These are the two degree programs I was primarily looking at for him:

https://www.spartan.edu/wp-content/uploa...df#page=61

or

https://www.tesu.edu/ast/programs/as/avi...technology