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Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Education
COVID-19 Lockdowns in Prisons Affecting Post-Secondary Education by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Higher education in prisons is being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 quarantine. Prisons are finding their post-secondary programs evolving into correspondence classes or falling away completely. Advocates fear that this will affect every aspect of an offender’s …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Rural Prisons, Education
Failed Michigan Jail Site to Host Innovation Center by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The University of Michigan (UM) is building a graduate campus on the grounds of the former site for a new Wayne County Jail (WCJ). The 190,000 square-foot research and graduate education building for UM students …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Education, Art
Poetry for the Prisoners’ Soul by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Among the few organizations intrepid enough to reach out to prisoners is a group called the Worker Writers School (WWS). From its beginning as a poetry workshop for traumatized prisoners in the aftermath of the slaughter of prisoners at …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Education
COVID-19 Changes the Face of Education in the Nation’s Prison Systems by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The COVID-19 pandemic has forced prisons across the country to alter the educational programs they offer. The change has highlighted the inequality in available technology between different state prison systems and revealed …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Whistleblowing, Education
Michigan Prisoner’s Whistleblowing on GED Test Cheating Survives Summary Judgment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Michigan federal district court found on January 6, 2020 that allegations by a prisoner tutor that prison officials retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on GED test cheating were sufficient to …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Education
Unequal Liberty and a Right to Education, 2020 Unequal Liberty and a Right to Education Helen Hershkoff & Nathan Yaffe1 This article lays the groundwork for a liberty-based right to quality public schooling. We start from the premise that Black, Brown, and poor children now and historically have never enjoyed …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Education
Institute for Higher Education Policy, Supporting Success - Higher Education in Prison, 2020 Authors: Michael Scott Brick & Julie Ajinkya, PhD September 2020 SUPPORTING SUCCESS: THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR FRAMEWORK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many individuals and organizations provided indispensable contributions to the evolution and production of this framework. …
Publication • 2020
How to Unlock the Power of Prison Education, the ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020 Policy Report How to Unlock the Power of Prison Education Stephen J. Steurer THE ETS CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON HUMAN CAPITAL AND EDUCATION Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface ..................................................................................1 …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Michigan Permits Prisoners to Seek Financial Assistance for College by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In October 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a 2020 budget that allowed prisoners to seek college financial aid through a state program that had long been out-of-bounds to prisoners. The Tuition Incentive …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Education, Art
Prison Plays Go on the Road, Teach Prisoners Life Skills by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) teamed up with the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative and took some prison plays on the road last December. It’s the first time a prison play has …
Article • March 3, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Education
It’s Time For the Feds To Fund College Education For Prisoners, Again by Anthony W. Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Twenty-five years after the federal government restricted prisoners from obtaining Pell Grants to pay for higher education while incarcerated, bipartisan support for new legislation reinstating access is gaining ground in …
Article • December 6, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Filed under: Education
Wasted Minds: Prisoners Languish in Florida Prisons with Little Access to Education by Ryan McKinnon, Josh Salman by Ryan McKinnon and Josh Salman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune / GateHouse Media Dade Correctional Institution employs one teacher for a population of 1,500 men – and just 16 prisoners have earned GED diplomas there …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: War on Drugs, Education
Study Finds that War on Drugs Kept Black Men from Higher Education by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In April 2019 study by Universityof California, Berkeley professor Tolani Britton established a link between the so-called “War On Drugs,” embodied in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, and college enrollment by …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Illinois DOC Interferes with Prisoners’ College Program by Removing Books by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For over a decade, the Education Justice Program (EJP), an extension of the University of Illinois, has taught classes at the Danville Correctional Center (DCC), a facility in the east-central part of the state …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Education
Connecticut Prison Writing Program Leads to Lawsuits by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Wally Lamb was an English teacher when he published his first novel, She’s Come Undone, in 1992. It became a huge hit after Oprah Winfrey selected it for her book club. In 1999, Lamb began …
Texas Civil Rights Project: Torture by Another Name - Solitary Confinement in Texas, 2019 Torture By Another Name Solitary Confinement in Texas OCTOBER 2019 Author: MEAGAN HARDING Senior Staff Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project Contributor: PETER STEFFENSEN Staff Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project Acknowledgements We would like to thank all …
Brief • July 11, 2019
Disability Rights Washington v. Inslee, et al., WA, settlement, prisoners with mental illness on lockdown, 2019 1 2 3 4 5 Timothy Lang, WSBA #21314 Haley Beach, WSBA #44731 Cassie vanRoojen, WSBA #44049 Assistant Attorneys General Corrections Division PO Box 40116 Olympia, WA 98504 (360) 586-1445 6 7 8 9 …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Filed under: Education, International
Federal Government Pays Nation of Islam to Teach BOP Prisoners by According to news reports, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its leaders have been paid at least $364,500 by the federal government since 2008. The money was to fund NOI religious services, spiritual guidance services, study services and other …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Interim Attorney Fees Awarded in Kentucky Good Time Lawsuit by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter In December 2018, a Kentucky federal district court awarded interim attorney fees and costs totaling $228,445.08 in a class-action lawsuit alleging state prisoners were denied Educational Good Time (EGT) credit earned since July …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
The Second Step: Invest in Prison Education Programs, Reinstate Pell Grants by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis, MBA Aaron Kinzel is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Jose Bou is the manager of Equity, Family and Community Partnerships in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sean Pica is the executive …
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