Reentry

Federal Student Aid has published this fact sheet with instructions on how incarcerated borrowers can get out of default through the Fresh Start initiative. It also briefly addresses other relief options, including contact information for the office that handles complaints—the Office of the Student Loan Ombudsman.

This is a report that uplifts the voices of formerly incarcerated students in California's public colleges and universities.

Estimates of post-release economic effects of participation in prison-based general educational development (GED) programs using a panel of earnings records and a rich set of individual information from administrative data in the state of Florida.

An abridged account of the keynote address at the 2013 National Conference on Higher Education in Prison at Saint Louis University, which focused on the power of prison higher education to bring about an end to this society’s grossly excessive reliance on incarceration.

This guide is for people who live with the threat of deportation to Mexico or Central America. This guide helps people to know their rights, learn where to access legal assistance, and make plans in case of possible deportation. There are five main section in A New Path: Preparing for Possible Deportation; After Your Return; Healing and Moving Forward; Deportation to Central America; and Directory and Additional Resources. This guide also offers supportive words from people who have been deported. Some of them are alumni of the Education Justice Project, a college-in-prison program at Danville Correctional Center in Illinois.

A guide to reentering society. Made by members of the EJP.

A compiled list of terms that replace oppressive institutional terminology with empowering and uplifting language.

Annual report: This program seeks to assist in reducing recidivism by 1) providing outcome and evidence-based Academic, Social Science, and Career and Technical Education programs; and 2) ensuring that students obtain marketable job skills prior to community reentry. This program serves adult men, with college credit and non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.

This guide from the College System of Tennessee seeks to offer guidance and dispel myths regarding occupational licensure both for prior justice-involved students as well as stakeholders such as advisors, college personnel, and others who may act as gatekeepers to these various occupations.

While this guide is not comprehensive, it does present licensure pathways and information for 12 in-demand occupations requiring licensure in Tennessee.