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This is a report summarizing findings from an evaluation of the Vera Institute of Justice's Renewing Communities initiative between 2016 and 2019. The findings of Vera’s study, summarized here, draw on program data from, and student surveys administered at, all 14 sites. In-depth qualitative research was conducted at five of the community-based programs, housed at different colleges and universities across California.
Drawing on the experiences of the first group of Second Chance Pell colleges, this toolkit, drafted in collaboration with the Chemeketa Community College, is designed to aid new and existing participants as they guide students through the complexities of filing for federal financial aid in prison, including completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA.
This is the full text of the FAFSA Simplification Act, as passed by the 116th Congress.
This is a BJA funding solicitation.
The goal of this resource is to enable stakeholders to compare eligibility requirements pertaining to justice system impact across major aid programs and states.
This policy outline provides an overview of state financial aid access for students enrolled in prison postsecondary education programs or students with prior criminal convictions who are enrolled in postsecondary education outside of prison.
This paper presents preliminary findings from a survey SHEEO administered to its members in 2018. The paper is organized around three main categories: access, program delivery, and reentry of program participants into society.
In collaboration with their global justice partners, the Incarceration Nations Network (INN) developed this virtual justice toolkit to examine research and practical experience from around the world regarding virtual (videoconference) technology in the justice system. This toolkit examines the following questions:
The Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative, launched by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015, provides need-based Pell Grants to people in state and federal prisons. Second Chance Pell has active partnerships with 64 colleges that teach in 28 states.
This toolkit from the State University of New York (SUNY) Higher Education for the Justice-Involved (HEJI) program serves as a guide for administrators in recruiting and training staff for their prison education programs.
Created by SUNY.
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.
In December 2017, Lumina Foundation provided support to the Prison University Project (PUP) and the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison (the Alliance) to reflect upon and document the key characteristics of high-quality prison higher education programs, and to inform other stakeholders in the field, including new and experienced practitioners seeking to achieve equity and excellence in their work, policy leaders, philanthropy, and others.
Annual report: RTA uses the transformative power of the arts to help people in prison develop skills to unlock their potential and succeed in the larger community. This program serves adult women, with no college credit or non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
Curriculum overview: At Resilience Education (RE), the mission is to reduce recidivism by improving employment outcomes and reentry success for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals through high-quality business education. This program serves adult men, with non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
Instructor handbook: The Prison Education Program at Saint Louis University is a Jesuit-inspired initiative that provides access to high-quality liberal arts education for people who are incarcerated and prison staff.
Teaching artist handbook: RTA uses the transformative power of the arts to help people in prison develop skills to unlock their potential and succeed in the larger community. This program serves adult women, with no college credit or non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face, and remote.
Faculty manual: The mission of Feather River College's Incarcerated Student Program is to offer a high-quality, transferable associate degree in liberal arts to a diverse incarcerated student population. Its mission is to also offer life skills courses that culminate in an entrepreneurial business certificate.
This is an MOU between Denison University's Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and Southeastern Correctional Institution. The program's purpose is to inspire and educate its students to become autonomous thinkers, discerning moral agents, and active citizens of a democratic society. This program serves adult men, with no college credit or non-credit offerings. Instruction is on-site, face-to-face.
