Dear community,
Deportation can be a traumatic process very similar to reentry after prison. Both incarcerated people and detained people have been taken from their communities, deprived of their liberty and returned to places that may no longer be familiar to them. Deportation guidance is reentry support.
As such, I’m thrilled to share with you the fully updated 2026 deportation guide, A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges And Opportunities After Deportation…
With generous funding from the ECMC Foundation, the Colorado Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (C-CHEP) has produced a research study of HEP coalitions. The report draws upon interviews with 33 leaders from statewide alliances, national advocacy groups, and leading HEP practitioners. Produced in collaboration with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, the report offers a nuanced dive into the opportunities, challenges, and joys of building education-based coalitions rooted in a commitment to social justice.
The Beginner’s Guide to Addiction Peer Recovery for Justice-Involved Individuals is a comprehensive resource designed to empower those impacted by addiction and the justice system. This guide offers insight into addiction peer recovery support, with a focus on supporting justice-impacted individuals through accessible, community-centered approaches.
Hey RCHEP Community,
Have you learned with FICGN yet? Join us tomorrow for the last HEP Orientation Learning & Feedback Session, where we'll explore the impact of K-12 education on higher ed in prison and reentry success in our "Lessons from Local Leaders" workshop.
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Time: 11am ET/8am PT
Register and Attend:…
A New Path: Deportation to Guatemala is a new guide from the Education Justice Project that provides clear, practical information for individuals facing deportation to Honduras.
The guide covers:
- What to expect upon arrival in Guatemala, including how to stay safe;
- Information on housing, employment, education, and more;
- Practical tips for navigating the return and reintegration…
Effective December 5, 2025, the reentry guides created by THEI, EJP, and NYPL are all available and searchable on JSTOR Access in Prison. There is a new link on the home page to these resources, so even if full access to JSTOR isn't available inside, if the JSTOR icon is loaded, anyone using the correctional version of JSTOR can access the materials.
We are seeing close to 2,000 searches daily, which is significant for items that exist outside of the traditional search bar. We are excited to be able to amplify the work being done in reentry, and are hopeful we can expand to…
A New Path: Deportation to Honduras is a new guide from the Education Justice Project that provides clear, practical information for individuals facing deportation to Honduras.
The guide covers:
- What to expect upon arrival in Honduras, including how to stay safe;
- Information on housing, employment, education, and more;
- Practical tips for navigating the return and reintegration…
Produced by Achieving the Dream, this Toolkit synthesizes research from the field and stories from our colleges and offers a vast array of work-sheets and planning templates to support college teams in building institutional capacity in teaching and learning. The purpose of this toolkit is for college teams of faculty, faculty/educational developers, Student Affairs professionals, and Academic Affairs leaders to use this resource as they collaborate to change their institutional culture.
Developed by the Life University Center for Compassion, Integrity, and Secular Ethics (CCISE), this resource manual offers guidelines for practice and trains readers to use a secular ethics approach to cultivating personal, social, and environmental flourishing. Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a multi-part training program that cultivates basic human values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social, and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from self-regulation and self-compassion to compassion for others and engagement with complex…
Developed by the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), this guide is separated into three sections: Getting to Know the Environment, Pedagogy in Practice, and Curriculum Details & Logistics. The first section of this guide, Getting to Know the Environment, provides an overview of prison infrastructure, terminology, and policies, in addition to how they impact the day-to-day reality and education of our students. The second section, …
