College Inside

Jesse Carson writes that prison education programs risk being absorbed into the prison bureaucracy.

new report raises questions about the quality of the education they’re getting. 

The majority of California’s 10,000 incarcerated community college students are enrolled in correspondence courses, which students were less likely to complete than face-to-face classes.

Graduation is just one stop along the way to getting an education, which inside prisons can take a really long time.

For those who are justice involved, the prospect of being returned to prison weighs heavily in our calculations about how we express our beliefs, writes Morgan Godvin in this first-person essay.

Learning to care for pets while inside can help incarcerated people learn to care for themselves and others.

Twenty women at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility will be part of a new bachelor’s degree program later this month. 

Lots of our reporting on prisons has come out this month — catch us in The Washington Post and Teen Vogue, as well as our partner newsrooms WBEZ and Chalkbeat Colorado.

Mick Guile is a first-year law student. Growing up with an incarcerated father inspired them to pursue a career that can make a difference.

Officials cited the administrative challenges of securing federal financial aid, as well as a $24 million budget shortfall.

When Wenting Zhang bought a clear plastic laptop on eBay, he had no idea about the chain of events he would kick off.