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.
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Posted inHigher Ed in Prisons
After 27 years in prison, a 54-year-old is now getting his Ph.D.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker commuted Johnny Pippins’s sentence. Now he’s adjusting to campus life at the University of Iowa.
Posted inCollege Inside
College in prison? In Florida, not so much.
There are only 326 incarcerated college students out of the 80,000 people incarcerated in the third largest prison system in the United States.
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College in prison? In Florida, not so much.
Only around 326 students are enrolled in college programs in Florida prisons That’s only a tiny fraction of the more than 80,000 people incarcerated in the state.
Posted inCollege Inside
This incarcerated Vietnam vet made education his mission
James “Sneaky” White started a college program for veterans.
Posted inHigher Ed in Prisons
How training in the trades is helping women succeed after prison
It helps combat a monumental challenge formerly incarcerated people face: finding jobs with decent wages in fields that will actually employ people with prison records.
Posted inCollege Inside
When education becomes the metric for clemency, some people get left behind.
Not everyone has the same access to educational opportunities inside.
Posted inColorado
Colorado becomes one of the first to employ an incarcerated professor
A new initiative at Adams State — one of the first of its kind in the country — focuses on employing incarcerated people with graduate degrees as college professors, rather than bringing in instructors from the outside.
Posted inHigher Ed in Prisons
Incarcerated people are rarely hired for outside jobs. A teaching gig changed my life.
Leo Hylton had the rare opportunity to leave prison for something other than a court date. He got to meet his students on campus.
Posted inCollege Inside
“I had never owned a computer. After 17 years in prison, I finally have one of my own.”
Kunlyna Tauch writes about how being in a college program gave him access to technology he hadn’t seen in 17 years.