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This brief sets forth guiding values and recommendations for grounding prison research in principles of racial equity. These values are intended to help researchers more accurately capture and measure racial biases, and design and conduct research that can identify and disrupt systemic biases.
Participant satisfaction surveys help behavioral health-criminal justice programs assess the quality of service being provided and their impact on individual outcomes, as well as help them to determine if there are disparities in program and service delivery.
This resource is a syllabus for the Prison Writing Center Praxis I/O course offered at Scripps College by Dr. Kimberley Drake. In this course, students will discuss the theory and practice of an Inside/Out Writing Center, with the goal of establishing and maintaining a Writing Center at CRC.
Annual report: University Beyond Bars (UBB) empowers prisoners to fulfill their potential through communities of higher learning that transcend prison walls. The program seeks to break cycles of incarceration, strengthen families and communities, confront racism and classism, and promote personal achievement and social reintegration by providing transformational education opportunities.
Annual report: STEP-UP's mission is to provide academic, logistical, and limited financial support for students who have been formerly incarcerated and/or have suffered from alcohol or drug addiction. This program serves adult men and women, with college credit and non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face.
This document provides FASFA information from the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative. The Tennessee Higher Education Initiative disrupts systems of harm and creates opportunities for autonomy and success through education, support, and advocacy with and for justice-impacted individuals. This program serves adult men, with college credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
This is a sample memorandum of understanding from the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative. The Tennessee Higher Education Initiative disrupts systems of harm and creates opportunities for autonomy and success through education, support, and advocacy with and for justice-impacted individuals. This program serves adult men, with college credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
Staff handbook: Tennessee Higher Education Initiative disrupts systems of harm, creates opportunities for autonomy and success through education, support, and advocacy with and for justice impacted individuals. This program serves adult men, with college credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
Strategic plan: The Petey Greene Program supplements education in jails, prisons, detention centers, and reentry programs by providing free, high-quality tutoring and related programming to support the academic achievement of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
In this brief report, the authors provide a descriptive overview of the landscape of higher education in prison during the 2018-2019 academic year. Data for this report are drawn from two sources: responses to the 2020 Annual Survey of Higher Education in Prison Programs (n = 131) and data compiled by the Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison for known programs that did not complete the Annual Survey (n = 169).
This resource discusses research on the importance on in-person instruction in prison higher education programs.
Guidelines prepared by EJP students to assist those with responsibility for representing students enrolled in higher educations programs in prison.
The Higher Education in Prison Key Performance Indicator Framework is designed to help HEP programs measure the impact they have on students, institutions, facilities, and communites by including indicators that help measure student success outcomes, academic quality, civic engagement, and soft skill development.
This study examines how academic achievement—measured as verbal and math performance—is associated with prison programming and reentry.
A guide created for colleges and corrections departments seeking to set up new programs to help program coordinators launch a college in prison program—from the decision to undertake this work to the first day of class.
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 presents research and professional perspectives on the use of technology in prison education programs. The discussion covers how programs can be intentional and thoughtful in their use of technology, how corrections departments can navigate technology vetting and protocols, and how programs can adjust to unexpected circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar offers an introduction to postsecondary education in prison programs. Experts in the field discuss guiding principles for designing and implementing effective programming.
