The hunger strikers at Robinson prison in Illinois succeeded in getting officials to review their cases, two months after we reported on the sentence credit issue.
Higher Ed in Prisons
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Behind bars, women in Washington learn to care for pets — and themselves.
A program for incarcerated women in Washington teaches participants more than just job skills.
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‘I trained service dogs while incarcerated. They taught me a lot about people.’
Melissa McKee had a unique job while incarcerated for 11 years at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, Wash. McKee earned dog training and grooming certifications through the nonprofit Prison Pet Partnership and began taking classes through Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a college program run in partnership with University of Puget […]
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‘A culture shift’ as Colorado starts its first bachelor’s degree program at a women’s prison
Women make up 8% of Colorado’s incarcerated population but this is the first four-year degree available in the state’s prisons for women.
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From web to work: How a tech ed program helps people prepare to leave prison
MIT and University of Massachusetts Lowell recently published a study on the positive effects of teaching HTML and JavaScript to incarcerated students.
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A new law was supposed to help people earn time off their sentences, but poor implementation is leaving some locked up
Hundreds of people in Illinois could be eligible for immediate release if their sentence credits were calculated properly.
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Many states don’t educate people sentenced to life. Now some are coming home.
Thousands of people who thought they’d die behind bars are now getting out without an education.
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With an incarcerated parent, pursuing a law degree was the natural choice
A first-year law student has a message for incarcerated parents: “Become someone your kid can brag about.”
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Georgia State University pulls the plug on prison education
It’s blaming a budget shortfall and federal rules for the return of Pell Grants for the decision.
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An incarcerated instructor taught that Jim Crow literacy tests were racist. Then he was fired.
The instructor was teaching a peer-led civics class that Illinois provides for people leaving prison. He’s now suing in federal court.