Created by SUNY.
This toolkit and guide were created by The State University of New York's (SUNY) Higher Education for the Justice Involved (HEJI) team to help support administrators and professors to best serve students by considering their power and responsibility inside the prison context. The first goal of this document is to help guide programs through developing hiring and training practices that can support quality programming inside the correctional facility. The second goal is to generate a larger conversation about what programs consider to be best practice and how hiring…
This manual will help prepare you to teach courses in Ohio’s correctional facilities as part of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP). Teaching in prison classrooms is unique and requires specialized training and many new considerations. This manual is meant to offer a guide as you plan your OPEEP courses and navigate the bureaucratic steps on campus and at the prison location where your class will convene.
Also attached to this resource is an OPEEP training slideshow that includes an introduction to OPEEP's mission and vision for the program.
A slideshow on effective pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching, and trauma informed practices developed by Saint Louis University Program Director, Christopher Grabau, PhD.
Also attached to this resource are training worksheets designed to be used alongside the slideshow.
Literacy Sponsorship in Carceral Contexts
The California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) Writing Center Handbook
Edited by Kimberly Drake, Molly Yeselson, Damian Busby, and James Avila
This book is a short sample of the Handbook created for writing center inside the California Rehabilitation Center with Scripps College. In this book, the writers acknowledge that violent literacy sponsors play roles in a larger network of intersectional oppressions, and that beginning with early literacy education, these sponsors indoctrinate students into accepting a particular place in a…
Becoming an alumnus is about more than just a diploma or a completed program. It's about the memories forged, the friendships made, and the enduring sense of belonging that can enrich a person's life long after graduation. I know this feeling intimately. Though my time on campus was brief, I’ll always be a Colorado Buffalo. That shared identity keeps me connected to a broader network, allows me to support future students, and inspires me to proudly wear my CU gear whenever the Buffs play.
This powerful connection isn't unique to traditional college graduates.…
The past few years we have heard about Pell grants that are allowing those in prison to attend college. There are many who do not qualify for the prison programs. Some women do not have a high school education or a GED. In some places, prison rules exclude some women from college programs. For example, Ohio used to have a rule that prisoners had to be within five years of the parole board to attend college.
Here is my question: What benefits are the women in college programs getting and how can those benefits be extended to the women who are not in college? I am presenting on this…
Jobs for the Future's Center for Justice and Economic Advancement will be holding their first ever Fair Chance Hiring for Higher Education Summer School & Fall Series which focuses on helping higher education institutions build fair chance hiring practices that include justice-impacted talent.
These sessions help unlock the potential of your campus workforce through our two-part Learning Journey designed for HR professionals, campus leaders, faculty, and administrators at colleges and universities to build fair hiring practices that include justice-impacted talent. …
You're invited to join a webinar on PEP administration tomorrow!
Webinar: Critical Partnerships in Administering a Prison Education Program
Date: May 29, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 75 Minutes
Price: Free
Launching and sustaining a Prison Education Program (PEP) requires more than just collaboration with the financial aid office—though that’s often where the process begins. Even the initial…
Mend, a publication from Project Mend of Syracuse University, celebrates the lives and creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as well as individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system. This annual publication showcases writing of all types, including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. While prospective authors may submit pieces that describe their experiences with incarceration, the publication welcomes contributions on any topic.
This Best Interest Determination (BID) Toolkit was created by the Vera Institute of Justice, in partnership with a BID Council and the members of the 2024 Corrections Education Leadership Academy (CELA), to be a resource for corrections agencies to prepare their BID system with all processes, procedures, and stakeholders in place, as necessary, to assess postsecondary institutions offering a PEP, according to federal regulations. To maintain their PEP status, postsecondary institutions must work with their correctional partner, otherwise known as the oversight entity, to complete a program…
