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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.
There are currently 396 higher education prison programs — a 9 percent increase from the 2019-20 academic year — according to a report by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison.
A prison literacy class for African Americans in New Orleans, 1937. In the United States, prisoners were given religious instruction by chaplains in the early 19th century, and secular prison education programmes were first developed in order to help inmates to read Bibles and other religious texts.
Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for by the federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition ...
The Associated Press visited a California prison for a graduation ceremony last month, as dozens of prisoners received college degrees, high school diplomas and vocational certificates earned ...
"Higher education in prison was commonplace in America until 1994, when the Clinton Crime Bill banned federal Pell Grants for people in prison. Overnight, college behind bars was decimated. Privately funded programs like the one we visited, the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), slowly sprang up, but they do not begin to fill the enormous need."
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 ...