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Exposing the Audacious Project to Make Christian Converts in America's Prisons by Tanya Erzen With a higher incarceration rate than anywhere in the world, the United States prison system has placed its faith in Christian prisoners. by Tanya Erzen, Beacon Press It’s hard to focus on anything, much less the Book …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Delaware Prisoners Demand Education, Rehabilitation by Monte McCoin At 1:59 p.m. on February 1, 2017, the tip line rang in the newsroom at Delaware’s largest paper. Reporters from The News Journal were the first members of the media to hear about a disturbance and hostage situation at the James T. …
Garcia v. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department et al., class action settlement, jail special education services, 2017
PLN Exclusive! Wisconsin DOC Audit Reveals Contract Violations by Community Corrections Provider by Derek Gilna Genesis Behavioral Services, a private company, contracts with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide community corrections services to male offenders at a facility in Kenosha – including certified substance abuse, mental health, domestic …
Increased Access to Higher Education Programs for California Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Some California prisoners, including those confined at the notorious Pelican Bay supermax, are enjoying access to higher education courses provided by the state’s community colleges. A 2014 law eliminated the requirement that all classes taught by community colleges …
State University of New York “Bans the Box” on Student Applications by On September 14, 2016, the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York voted to “ban the box” from the school’s student application form. The move revised the university’s prior policy which required applicants to declare …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program, Bazos and Hausman, 2004 Correctional Education as a Crime Control Program by Audrey Bazos and Jessica Hausman UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Department of Policy Studies March, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Correctional Education 3 Incarceration …
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Prison Survival Guides Find Audience Beyond Soon-to-be Prisoners by Derek Gilna Those people unfortunate enough to have been incarcerated are all too aware of the harsh realities of life “on the inside.” Thanks to America’s fascination with prison as a solution for all anti-social behavior, as well as draconian sentences …
If the Risk is Low, Let Them Go by by Renee Feltz, The Indypendent Back in 1978, Mujahid Farid had already decided to turn his life around when he entered the New York prison system to begin a 15-year-to-life sentence for attempted murder of an NYPD officer.  Held in Rikers Island …
Maryland DOC Suspends Volunteer, Drops Literature Program by Mikita Brottman led a reading and discussion group for nine Maryland prisoners serving life sentences at the Jessup Correctional Institution. A professor of literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a psychoanalyst, Brottman volunteered her time for two hours a …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Company Offers Educational Tablets to Prisoners, with Mixed Results by Matthew Clarke A new educational product offered by a private company is being provided to prisoners in an increasing number of the nation’s jails – computer tablets supplied by Chicago-based Edovo (a name derived from “Education Over Obstacles”). Edovo tablets …
Publication • November 3, 2016
National Center for Education Statistics - Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults Their Skills, Work Experience, Education, and Training, 2014 Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults: Their Skills, Work Experience, Education, and Training Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies: 2014 NCES 2016-040 …
Article • October 31, 2016
Peace Education Program Helps Prisoners Find Inner Peace by Matthew Clarke The Peace Education Program is an international non-religious effort by The Prem Rawat Foundation to help prisoners throughout the world discover inner peace and translate the inner peace into outward expressions of peace. Prem Rawat started the foundation in …
Article • October 25, 2016
Filed under: Jail Specific, Education
CA: Home School District of Incarcerated Youth with Disabilities Required to Pay for Their Education by Lonnie Burton The California Supreme Court has ruled that the home school district of an incarcerated youth in need of special education services is obliged to bear the cost of that student's education while …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Second Chance Pell Pilot Program Will Bring College to 12,000 Prisoners by On June 24, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced that 67 colleges and universities had been selected to offer courses to imprisoned students at over 100 federal and state prisons through the DOE’s recently-implemented Second Chance …
Article • September 9, 2016
Utah: Prisoners' Education Should Be Cheaper, Take Less Time, Report Says by Secondary education classes for state prisoners in Utah are wasting tax dollars and, more importantly, the time that prisoners are serving, according to an August 2012 legislative report by the state's auditor general, Utah lawmakers wanted to know …
Article • September 8, 2016
"Specter" Funds for Prisoner Education Cut Endangering Prison College Programs by Matthew Clarke Some prison systems have been providing a college education to prisoners financed, at least in part, by federal funding named after correctional education advocate Arlen Specter, a former U.S. senator. But Congress didn't renew the "Specter" funds …
Brown v. DPSCS, MD, Amended Complaint, Discrimination Against Blind Prisoners, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00945-RDB Document 20 Filed 09/06/16 Page 1 of 33 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND ANTHONY BLUE STEVEN BROWN WILBERT DELANO GREGORY HAMMOND SEDRIC HOLLEY RUSSELL HOPKINS JOHNNIE JAMES TYRELL POLLEY MAYNARD SNEED …
Oseguenda v. Stanislaus County Public Safety Center, CA, Complaint and Demand for Trial, Due Process, Pretrial Detainees. 2016 (Rev. 12/12) 12/12) JS 44 44 (Rev. Case 1:16-at-00670CIVIL Document 1 Filed 08/16/16 Page 1 of 21 COVER SHEET contained herein herein neither replace replace nor nor supplement supplement the The JS …
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