This webinar discusses some key factors in successfully setting up a satellite campus. Experts in the field discuss the importance of institutional support, creating learning communities that transcend prison walls, creating academic calendars, and more.

This webinar explores how organizations and educational programming can effectively recruit and train leaders and staff. Specifically, this webinar provides insight into important hiring techniques to ensure that formerly incarcerated people have significant roles in the work that impacts them and their communities.

This webinar features multiple perspectives from professionals in the field of higher education in prison on developing memorandums of understanding (MOUs). These experts provide valuable advice on negotiating and collaborating with various stakeholders and navigating multiple financial considerations throughout the development of the MOU.

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 webinar offers a review of research related to postsecondary education in prisons and recidivism. Panelists discuss some of their own research on this subject, what this and other research means for evaluating postsecondary education programs, and what is or should be on the horizon in this field.

This is a guidebook for department of corrections administrators focused on collecting data related to correctional education.

This data brief summarizes results from the first six years of the Vera Institute of Justice's Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP), launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015.

This report from the Vera Institute of Justice summarizes five case studies of state departments of corrections and their partners that have created robust job training programs. These programs provide incarcerated people with opportunities to earn industry-relevant credentials and prepare for in-demand careers after release.

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.

The U.S. Department of Education’s new regulations governing the implementation of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated people include a requirement to gather stakeholder feedback, including feedback from justice-impacted people. This webinar focuses on how state consortia, or structured stakeholder partnerships, can facilitate this process and ensure the voices of directly impacted people are heard and valued.

The U.S. Department of Education has published final regulations about the requirements colleges with approved prison education programs (PEPs) must follow in order for students who are incarcerated to be eligible to access Pell Grants for an academic credential. This webinar covers key takeaways from the final rules for college PEPs, departments of corrections, and accreditation agencies.

In collaboration with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the Vera Institute of Justice created this guidebook for accreditors and their peer reviewers, providing insight into the unique context and goals of postsecondary education in correctional facilities.

This webinar spotlights Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEP) Centers. These centers, which currently operate in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, connect individuals reentering their community with employment in manufacturing.

A meta-analysis of 37 years of research (1980-2017) on correctional education and applied meta-analytic techniques.

This resource discusses a meta-analysis of 18 eligible studies of educational interventions implemented within juvenile correctional facilities.

An article reviewing key findings from a review of correctional education programs for incarcerated adults and juveniles. The study included a meta-analysis of CE's effects on the post-release recidivism and employment rates of incarcerated adults, as well as a synthesis of evidence on CE programs for juveniles.

An infographic outlining key findings from a RAND report titled "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education."

This is a blog post advocating for an equitable, student-centered technology ecosystem for correctional education. A U.S. Department of Education resource is referenced at the end of the post.

The Reentry Education Tool Kit was created by RTI International with support from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), to help education providers and their partners create a reentry education continuum in their communities.

This study examines how academic achievement—measured as verbal and math performance—is associated with prison programming and reentry.