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Inmates at Hillsborough County Juvenile Detention Centre in 2020. Prison-to-college programs exist around the world, providing opportunities for higher education to current and formerly incarcerated individuals in efforts to increase employment opportunities and reduce post-release recidivism rates. [1]
The Bard Prison Initiative was founded by undergraduates at Bard College in 1999, after access to Pell Grants was eliminated for incarcerated people in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, shutting down most prison education programs around the country. BPI launched as a pilot with 16 students in 2001.
While university access existed, a 1992 Human Rights Watch report found that most prisons only offered basic education and some vocational training, and female inmates had less access to education than males. [10] As of 2018, the National University of Distance Education is the only institution allowed to provide university education to inmates ...
A partnership between Lane College and a state prison prompts a historic graduation for six inmates receiving bachelor's degrees.
The post College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets at one of the nation’s largest jails appeared first on TheGrio. ... Helen Damon-Moore, who oversees the jail education ...
Between 1986 and 2009, approximately 1,000 inmates received either a General Educational Development certificate or a high school diploma through the institution's basic educational program. In 1999, the prison expanded education opportunities through a program called the New Directions Education Project. The program offers inmates college ...
Offered at more than 1,700 colleges and universities in the U.S., the ROTC program provides participants a paid college education and guaranteed post-college career in exchange for committing to ...
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program (Inside-Out) is an international educational program based at Temple University in Philadelphia. [1] The program was established in 1997 to bring traditional college students and incarcerated persons together in semester-long courses to explore and learn about issues of crime and justice from behind prison walls, based on the hypothesis that incarcerated ...