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 ‘women’s empowerment vibe’ in Colorado
Twenty women at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility will be part of a new bachelor’s degree program later this month.
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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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Shoddy recordkeeping is prolonging prison stays in Illinois
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.
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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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After his release from a Colorado prison, David Carrillo continues to educate students on the inside
David Carrilllo took only a week to adjust after getting released from a Colorado prison. Now, he’s teaching students again.
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With an incarcerated parent, pursuing a law degree was the natural choice
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.