A growing body of research documents the barriers faced by incarcerated students—such as limited access to technology and conflicts with correctional staff—but far less attention has been paid to the role of the built environment in shaping educational experiences. This project, led by Ennead Lab and Ithaka S+R, examines how spatial, architecture, and design features impact learning inside prisons. It draws on qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated students and prison education program staff, and site visits to five correctional facilities, to advance both research findings and…
Launched in 2019 with support from the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative (THEI), the Tennessee Prison College Coalition (TPCC) seeks to increase collaboration between Tennessee state agencies, higher education institutions, and nonprofit partners building postsecondary education pathways for students who are justice-impacted, both in prison and the free world. TPCC brings together leaders from THEI, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC), Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD…
The thesis of my book, Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovation During Incarceration (Routledge, 2025), is that the Constitution's intellectual property clause calls for promoting innovation by all people, including the incarcerated, to benefit the nation. The book proposes a shift from exploiting prison labor to supporting creativity among those who opt in, protecting their intellectual property rights, and making their creative products in literature, the visual arts, music, drama, and other expressive products available to the public. The size of the prison…
Position: Education in Action Intern
Time Commitment:
- Up to 25 hours a week (Minimum of 5 hours of virtual meetings and coworking and up to 20 hours of independent work)
- 6-month commitment; with an option to extend an additional 6 months
Anticipated Annual Salary Range: $20–$25/hour; up to 25 hours/week
Introduction
The Alliance for Higher Education in…
The New England Prison Education Collaborative is preparing to host the first of our quarterly virtual workshops in March, “Conducting a Higher Education in Prison Needs Analysis: Varied Approaches and Perspectives.”
Date and Time: March 19th, 2025, from 3:00- 4:30 PM EST.
Registration Link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/d3dzhr5
Location: Zoom
Event Details…
The Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, is forming a national consortium of higher education in prison programs that operate in prisons designated for women.
The Womxn’s Higher Education in Prison Consortium (WHEP) is a collaborative initiative designed to advance equity in higher education for incarcerated women, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals. This groundbreaking effort brings together programs operating in women-designated prisons to address shared challenges, foster…
A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation is a guide for people who live in the United States with the threat of deportation. This guide includes information on topics such as
- Know your rights
- Planning for possible deportation
- What to expect with detention and deportation
- How to connect with resources in your home country
- …
Title: Completing the PEP Application and the E-App Process
Date: January 28, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 75 minutes
Price: Free
When Partner Connect and the E-App changed at the beginning of 2024, schools discovered they would need to add some unanticipated details to their application the first time they did a submission after that. And when the process and documentation to apply to be a Prison Education Program (PEP) via the E-App changed in the…
Ithaka S+R designed a playbook to help correctional education leaders center student learning as they navigate the education technology landscape. The guide, created with support from Ascendium Education Group and in dialogue with several correctional education leaders, provides decision-making tools and frameworks to assist leaders as they consider how to implement new education technology in prisons.
The playbook includes:
- A framework to help correctional…
Advancing Pretrial Policy & Research:
The Center for Effective Public Policy and partners are holding a Participatory Pretrial Training Session on the collective wisdom and evidence-based pretrial reform efforts published in CEPP's Gender Justice Pretrial Toolkit. This initiative was composed in collaboration with USM Opportunity Scholars with input from my currently and formerly incarcerated MCC Sisters Linda Small, Darlene George, and yours truly as CEPP Gender Justice Policy Advisors.
With…
