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Renford Reese (born July 24, 1967) is a professor in the political science department at Cal Poly Pomona and the founder/director of the Prison Education Project. He is the author of American Bravado (2007), Prison Race (2006), Leadership in the LAPD: Walking the Tightrope (2005), and American Paradox: Young Black Men (2004).
Brockway was the first to implement a points-based behavior system that identified low risk offenders at the Monroe County Penitentiary as eligible participants for industrial/trade schools, moral education, and academia programs (Gehring, 1982). [5] While prison education programs have existed in some capacity for decades, there has been a ...
She turned these efforts into the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), a Texas, organization teaching entrepreneurship and character development to incarcerated men. In 2009, Jackson was banned from Texas prisons after she admitted to having inappropriate relationships with PEP participants after their release from prison.
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.
She was also a member of the groundbreaking prison education program’s first-ever graduating class, which is how our paths crossed in Purdy, surrounded by razor wire and armed guards. Today ...
LSSU has announced future plans for an inmate education program that would teach LSSU classes in-person at local Chippewa County correctional facilities.
[124] [125] This resulted in the restoral of federal Pell Grant funding for Prison Education Programs (PEP) and legislation like California bill SB416 that protects incarcerated students from predatory lending. [125] Prison education has proven to lower recidivism rates and increase employment for graduates upon release.
A master's degree program in humanities for California prison inmates, launched in collaboration with CSU Dominguez Hills, is described as 'groundbreaking.'