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Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Virginia Prisoners Stuck Waiting for Education Programs by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso On November 10, 2025, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) of the Commonwealth of Virginia released a report detailing the long wait prisoners can expect when trying to participate in educational programming in the state’s …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Killings Inside Mississippi’s Prisons Continue Unabated But Report Prompts DOC to Reopen Investigations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney With at least 42 people killed inside Mississippi’s prisons over the last decade, multiple families are wondering why the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC) cannot protect people in its custody or …
Delaware Settles Suit Over Depriving Young Prisoners of Special Education by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a legal settlement approved on December 2, 2025, prisoners with learning disabilities held by the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) moved several steps closer to receiving the educational instruction necessary to achieve a …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
How I Learned to Transcribe Braille in Prison by Nathan Gray by Nathan Gray, Prison Journalism Project This story was originally published by Prison Journalism Project.   Many jobs in Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Correctional Institution consist of routine manual labor that helps the prison run: cooking, cleaning, laundering—that kind of thing. …
Jail-­Based IGNITE Program Found to Reduce Recidivism by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A study analyzing the effects of a new jail-­based rehabilitation program shows significant reductions in recidivism, and is upending the previous correctional mindset of “nothing works.” Nearly 600,000 people are incarcerated in jails in the United …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$95,000 in Settlements for Illinois Prisoners Retaliated Against for Class Participation in Prison Education Programs by David Reutter On October 4, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) settled the second of two lawsuits brought by prisoners involved in educational programs who claimed that they were subjected to retaliation after …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Education
Auburn University’s Prison Education Program ‘Indefinitely Suspended’ by Charlotte West Longstanding prison education programs at two major public research universities in the South face an uncertain future by Charlotte West Just a few months after Georgia State University announced last spring that it would end its college program for incarcerated …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department by On March 11, 2025, the federal Department of Education (ED) announced the purge of nearly half of its employees, leaving students reliant on federally insured student loans facing processing delays and potentially predatory loan servicers now unshackled from …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN reported 25 years ago, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) was accused in a suit filed by attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of denying educational opportunities to young …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Long Wait List for Texas’ Only College-Level Re-Entry Class for Prisoners by As of November 26, 2024, more than 250 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoners were on the wait list for a re-entry class offered at nine state prisons near Huntsville by Lee Community College in Baytown. The …
Washington Prisoners Prep for Firefighting Career After Release by A new program is preparing some Washington state prisoners to become wildland firefighters after release. Though launched only recently, ARC 20 traces its roots to “honor camps” that state lawmakers established in 1939 to clear and maintain land owned by the …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Education, jobs
Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release by When Brittany Wright, 30, got out of a Washington prison in June 2023, she was confident that it would be easier than her last release 10 years earlier. Back then, she had found it almost impossible to find a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Georgia Prison Education Program Shuttered by Georgia State University announced on March 21, 2024, that it was pulling the plug on its eight-­year-­old Prison Education Program (PEP), in which 60 prisoners at two state prisons and one federal lockup were working toward college associate degrees. PEP alumni include nine men …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Education
Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners by Marina Bueno, an incarcerated writer, hopes to attend college but faces a harsh reality—no college classes are offered at her Florida women’s prison in Homestead. In fact, only 326 out of 80,000 state prisoners were enrolled in a college class as of …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors by David Carrillo, 49, was released from prison on January 31, 2024, a month after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted his sentence. Polis praised Carrillo for completing a GED, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business administration while in prison. Carillo is …
Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration by When Illinois prisoner J. Le’Dell Pippins, 54, defied the odds to gain acceptance into the University of Iowa’s Ph.D. in Criminology program, it proved a key factor in the decision by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to commute Pippins’ 30-year …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Education, Art, Tapes/Music
Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
“More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release by With unemployment at historic lows, Ohio is preparing prisoners for jobs after release by offering training in technical skills. In December 2023, the first group of eight state prisoners completed one such program, after training …
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