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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Includes $78,000 in Damages Against Minnesota DOC for ADA Violations by On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in federal court for the District of Minnesota against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) concerning violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Education, Video Visitation
The Lecturer at the Lockup: Maine Prisoner Is First to Teach College Courses from His Cell by Professor Leo Hylton’s class is like almost every other at Colby College in Maine. Students form a circle with their chairs around their professor. His course on prison abolition – the movement to …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Education, halfway houses
California College Offers Housing, Services to Formally Incarcerated Students by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders For decades, prisoners were not eligible for federal financial aid for college education. So when Congress passed the Second Chance Act in 2020, rescinding ineligibility for felons and prisoners to access federal Pell Grant funding …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
State Prison Systems Failing to Provide Meaningful Programming by Casey Bastian By Casey J. Bastian There are around 1.25 million prisoners in state prison systems. Prior to incarceration, most were poor, uneducated, disadvantaged or marginalized. But wait-lists for prison education and other programming indicate prisoners desire to better themselves. Yet …
Article • May 9, 2023
Former Federal Prisoner Markets Game App He Developed Behind Bars by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Prison is often compared to as a pressure cooker, exerting powerful forces that can either make or break someone. With a stunning list of achievements, Eric Van Buren is not one of the …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Education
College Education Disrupted for Washington Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss At the same time the federal government is once again opening Pell Grants to prisoners, some have been left scrambling in Washington by closure of the State Reformatory (WSR) – which hosted the state’s primary college program …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Educating Prisoners: New Meta-Analysis Reinforces That It Reduces Recidivism by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders With the highest incarceration rate in the world – over six out of every 1,000 people – America has long known there is one thing that consistently reduces recidivism: education. A recent meta-analysis conducted by …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Student Loan Debt and Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) took action in August 2022 to forgive up to $20,000 in federal or federally insured student loan debt, nearly 22 million of some 44 million Americans affected rushed to sign up. Prisoners …
Article • December 5, 2022
Filed under: Education
3,338 Texas Prisoners Taking College Courses with Pell Grants by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott    In July 2023, the Biden White House will return the hope of education to more prisoners by restoring the financial assistance provided by Pell Grants. The federal need-based funding for college courses …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Education
New Federal ‘Fresh Start’ Student Loan Policy May Help Prisoners in Default by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 26, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new “fresh start” policy for people whose student loans are in default, and it may help prisoners who would otherwise …
Article • July 19, 2022
GED Cheating Scheme Uncovered at Montana CoreCivic Prison by Kaden Gicker By Kaden Gicker The academic testing program at Montana’s Crossroads Correctional Center (CCC) was “indefinitely suspended” after a test administrator was found helping prisoners cheat. The tests under suspicion were high school equivalency exams, and the allegations resulted in …
Publication • 2022
NCLC-Collection at All Costs-Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration, July 2022 COLLECTION AT ALL COSTS Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration and the Student Debt Crisis July 2022 PROTEC TBOR ROWER S .ORG Acknowledgments This report benefited from gracious review and input by Bradley Custer of the Center for American …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Education
What to Know about Using Pell Grants to Take College Classes in Prison by Richard Hahn by Richard Hahn THE VALUE OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCAtion to people who complete courses in prison is well established. The Second Chance Pell (SCP) Pilot, which offered federal grants to help prisoners pay for college …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Colorado Using SWIFT but Cheap Wildlands Firefighters by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For many years PLN has reported on prison systems across the nation like those in Arkansas and Texas that pay prisoners nothing for the work they are required to perform. Others, like Louisiana, pay only pennies per …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Education
How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator by Eli Hager by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Six years ago, Ashland University, a small Christian college in the north-central region of Ohio known as the “Buckeye Bible Belt,” was in trouble. The school was $70 million …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Order Granting Preliminary Injuction, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 37 Filed 06/16/21 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARLES H., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-00997 (CJN) DISTRICT OF …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Memorandum Opinion, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 38 Filed 06/16/21 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARLES H., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-00997 (CJN) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et. …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Education
Prisoners Find Their Voice in Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Jennifer Bowen Hicks wandered the United States for many years freelancing for literary magazines and teaching writing classes before making her home in Minnesota. In 2011, she decided to share her unique writing skill with …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 4 Filed 04/09/21 Page 1 of 55 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) ) ) ) ISRAEL F., ) Civil Action No. _______________ 1901 E Street, SE …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Federal Educational Aid Restored for State and Federal Prisoners by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Need help paying for college while in prison? Getting financial aid in prison for college got easier on December 20, 2020. That’s when Congress passed a $1.4 trillion government spending bill for 2021 that included …
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