Reentry and Chances
Second Chance Month has noble aims, and in many ways has strived to address the collateral consequences that extend long beyond a person’s release from incarceration.
A primary goal of Second Chance Month is to raise awareness on the challenges that individuals face when reentering society after incarceration, and to provide interventions that will enhance the likelihood of successful reentry. Contemplating these challenges, the scarcity of opportunities to adequately prepare for reentry during incarceration comes to mind. The impact and…
Join Team CPE! This Women's History Month, we're hiring our first-ever coordinator for full-time focus on our program at York CI—where CPE has created rigorous college access for incarcerated women in Connecticut for 10 years running. Looking forward to adding a passionate collaborator to this project and community.
Apply here: https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10350
What does Education in Action look like in practice? Since its inception, the U.S. prison system has functioned to separate people from their families, communities, and the people they harmed. The system has also functioned to prevent people who have caused harm from engaging in any meaningful reparative action. It has functioned to restrict people's ability to care for their families, and to remove mentors, service members, and caretakers from their communities. Education in Action (EiA) is an initiative by the…
Check out the new job postings on the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison Job Board – https://www.higheredinprison.org/job-board
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop – https://www.higheredinprison.org/jobs-board/free…
If you haven't checked them out lately, take a moment to see what's new on the Alliance's Job Board and Community Events page!
- Job Board – https://www.higheredinprison.org/job-board
- Community Events – https://www.higheredinprison.org/community-events
MIT is holding an event to gather professors, students, policy makers, and members of the business community to discuss equitable hiring practices and the barriers that individuals from marginalized communities face in the socioeconomic and professional arenas. This event is to discuss and improve public support for second chance hiring practices for formerly incarcerated individuals, and will be featuring the story of Daniel Dart, MIT's first formerly incarcerated student at the Sloan School of Business.
MIT Sloan EMBA student Daniel Dart, EMBA '24, is a leader in Second…
The U.S. Department of Labor will be granting $52 million to support projects that advance pre-release job training and apprenticeship programs for incarcerated individuals.
These Pathway Home grants will be awarded to projects that provide incarcerated individuals with legal assistance, counseling, job search strategies and other foundational skills prior to release. These grants—ranging from $1 million to $4 million to each recipient—demonstrate the value of initiatives like Education in Action that close the gaps between higher education in prison and employment opportunities.…
This news article from Open Campus features an interview with Donnie Veal, a formerly incarcerated student who recently found himself on the job market.
This news article from Open Campus examines how the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center's Prison to Employment Connection (P2EC) program helps men learn how to put the work they've done inside into context for prospective employers. P2EC is a 14-week job-readiness training program for people who are within one year of a release date or have a scheduled parole board hearing in the next six months. The curriculum includes an assessment to help participants identify possible careers, workshops on identifying strengths and transferable skills, and résumé editing.
This news article from Open Campus examines a pre-apprenticeship program in Washington State that introduces incarcerated women to the trades.
