The Wall Street Journal

Prison Inmates Argue Their Way to a Win Against West Point

They did it again.

The debate team of New York prison inmates who beat Harvard College last fall had another triumph Friday, this time against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

A spokesman for the state corrections department confirmed that all three judges voted for the men in a maximum-security prison. They are students in the…

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