Jesse Carson writes that prison education programs risk being absorbed into the prison bureaucracy.
Prisons
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First person: ‘My college experience behind bars made me feel less than human.’
Even though I have used my time in prison to educate myself, I’m not sure I’d recommend it to anyone else.
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Incarcerated community college students in California struggle to pass correspondence courses
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.
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Incarcerated Californians are doing college by mail. It makes it harder to get to the finish line.
Most prison education in California is offered via correspondence, report finds.
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I’ve always been a storyteller. But my professors in prison taught me how to write.
How a formerly incarcerated writer ended up on the stage at Comic-Con.
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For those inside, graduation is more than just a ceremony
Graduation is just one stop along the way to getting an education, which inside prisons can take a really long time.
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What it’s like to graduate college behind bars
Some college graduates donning their caps and gowns this spring are getting their degrees behind bars.
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Problems calculating sentence credits prompt hunger strikes at Illinois prison
The hunger strikers at Robinson prison in Illinois succeeded in getting officials to review their cases, two months after we reported on the sentence credit issue.
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The risk of protesting with a criminal record
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.
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Puppies in prison
Learning to care for pets while inside can help incarcerated people learn to care for themselves and others.