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Author highlights and responds to 3 FAQ in the field that don't have clear or easy answers.
In this webinar, experts on administering financial aid in prison settings discuss what financial aid administrators and prison education practitioners can do to ensure they are prepared to effectively support incarcerated learners with Pell Grant eligibility.
This resource highlights existing higher education programs in Illinois state prisons and uplifts the need for additional programs and supportive policies across the state.
The overall purpose of NCHEP is to provide an annual opportunity for the higher education in prison community to gather and mobilize the talent, resources, and energy needed to expand access to quality higher education and academic reentry support services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
This is a solicitation for grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Includes links to HEP program stats by state, map view of HEP program locations across the country, a directory of HEP programs across the country, data archives from previous years, a how-to guide on using the directory, and other relevant links/resources.
This is a solicitation for grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance.
A biweekly newsletter about the future of postsecondary education in prisons. Written by Open Campus staff reporter Charlotte West.
This article from USA Today discusses the expansion of Pell Grants, which were eliminated in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 for incarcerated people and ended the majority of prison education programs.
In this radio segment from NPR and WBUR's Here & Now, Deepa Fernandes speaks with Jennifer Lackey, the founding director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. This segment runs approximately 8 minutes and 50 seconds.
This article from Reuters announces the graduation of the first class of incarcerated students from Northwestern University's Prison Education Program on November 15, 2023.
This report from the Prison Policy Initiative offers some much-needed clarity by piecing together the data about this country’s disparate systems of confinement. It provides a detailed look at where and why people are locked up in the U.S., and dispels some modern myths to focus attention on the real drivers of mass incarceration and overlooked issues that call for reform.
You can now download and print the November/December issue of College Inside. It features coverage from the National Conference for Higher Education in Prisons held in Atlanta in November.
This article is a guest essay written in the New York Times by Max Kenner, founder and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College. Mr. Kenner argues that the FAFSA Simplification Act "has the potential to do more good within U.S. prisons than any policy in a generation." But, he continues, the work has just begun.
Led by the inaugural cohort of the Justice Fellows Policy Program, The Education Trust, in partnership with local higher education and justice advocates, analyzed state support for currently and formerly incarcerated students in eight states — California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas, and developed state-specific toolkits to help advocates and policymakers tear down the remaining barriers for justice-impa
Solicitation for FY 2022 Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes
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.
Led by the inaugural cohort of the Justice Fellows Policy Program, The Education Trust, in partnership with local higher education and justice advocates, analyzed state support for currently and formerly incarcerated students in eight states — California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas, and developed state-specific toolkits to help advocates and policymakers tear down the remaining barriers for justice-impa
Transcript from the DOJ OJP's Justice Matters podcast from Second Chance Month April 2022. BJA Director of Criminal Justice Innovation, Development, and Engagement meets with Chris Poulos - lawyer, professor, former White House intern, Director of Person-Centered Services for the Washington State DOC, and formerly incarcerated person/person with lived experience.