An incarcerated man transferred from Illinois to Minnesota to attend Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
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College Inside and Prisoncast! team up to launch newsletter for people incarcerated in Illinois
Charlotte West, Open Campus’s education and prisons reporter, has teamed up with Lauren Frost and Alex Keefe from WBEZ Chicago’s Prisoncast! project to create a quarterly print newsletter for people incarcerated in Illinois.
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He won a yearlong fight to be released from prison, but says more deserve sentence reductions
Carl Rogers, walked out of Robinson Correctional Center on February 14. By his calculations, his release came more than a year later than it should have.
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Illinois settles two lawsuits linked to prison education programs
The Illinois Department of Corrections has settled two federal civil rights lawsuits filed by people in prison who say their First Amendment rights were violated.
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College Inside: Illinois Edition
Short on time? Here’s what you need to know: We’ve got a new way to reach incarcerated readers in Illinois Yesterday, our local partner WBEZ Chicago sent out 400+ copies of a special Illinois-focused print issue of College Inside to people incarcerated in the state prison system. We’ve been working closely with WBEZ’s team at Prisoncast!, an audio […]
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‘An educated prisoner is a dangerous prisoner’
Juan Hernandez, an artist incarcerated in Illinois, shares sketches about his experience with higher education in prison.