College Inside

Johnny Le’Dell Pippins was already accepted into a Ph.D. program in criminology at the University of Iowa when he got out of prison last year.

There are only 326 incarcerated college students out of the 80,000 people incarcerated in the third largest prison system in the United States.

James “Sneaky” White started a college program for veterans.

Not everyone has the same access to educational opportunities inside.

Kunlyna Tauch writes about how being in a college program gave him access to technology he hadn’t seen in 17 years.

Internships, apprenticeships, and work learning opportunities allow incarcerated students to keep learning after they graduate.

Lonnie Morris loves to learn, but wasn’t always the best student. It took some tough love from a mentor to buckle down and become one of the first men to earn a degree at San Quentin.

Women in Washington reflect on their experience with a pre-apprenticeship that introduces them to the trades.

We talked to incarcerated College Inside readers about the personal tablets that are increasingly ubiquitous in prisons and jails across the country.