This is a BJA solicitation award announcement for Academic and Workforce Development Programs at the Montana Women's Prison, Billings, Montana. Montana State University Billings (MSUB) will expand both academic and short-term vocational workforce training programs for women incarcerated at the Montana Women's Prison (MWP) and upon their transfer to the pre-release correctional facility (Passages) located in Billings. MSUB programs are intended to provide a pathway to self-sufficiency for women offenders and thereby decrease the likelihood they will return to prison and/or commit new crimes…
This is a solicitation for FY 2022 Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes.
This is an award announcement for FY 2022 Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes to Georgia Pathways to Campus: Developing Pre- to Post-Release Support at Georgia State Universities and Technical Colleges.
This webinar asks justice-impacted college graduates to reflect on their educational experience—the challenges encountered as they worked toward earning their degrees, the services they found helpful, and what the future of college in prison programming should look like.
This webinar showcases the work of several prison-based education programs to develop student advisory boards in prison, establish reentry navigators on college campuses, and collaborate with formerly incarcerated people within student-led and other community-based organizations that support current students.
This fact sheet from the Vera Institute of Justice highlights new regulations, passed by Congress on October 28, 2022, that prison education programs must follow to access Pell Grants for incarcerated students.
This is a recording from the San Francisco Public Library's Banned Books event.
This guide is intended to be a starting point for corrections officials who are considering partnering with a college to implement an in-prison college program within their prison facilities or who currently have such a program and would like additional information to help ensure the success of that program.
This is a final report to the U.S. Attorney General summarizing the findings from RAND's literature review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of correctional education programs for incarcerated adults. It also includes a systematic review of correctional education programs for juveniles; the results of a national survey of state correctional education directors, which includes an up-to-date picture of what the field of correctional education looks today in the U.S. and explores the use of computer technology, preparations for the 2014 GED program, and the impact of the 2008 recession;…
This blog post details how DOC education leadership and staff were planning to respond to the restoration of Pell Grants for incarcerated college students.
