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Read Cultivating Relationships and Building Support: A Guide to College-in-Prison Program Sustainability

This guide discusses how cultivating relationships with key stakeholders is critical for building a strong infrastructure for your program. Focusing on four categories of stakeholders, this guide is designed to help those new to the field to navigate and manage the different community members whose support is critical to the success and sustainability of college-in-prison programs. This guide is designed for anyone in the planning stages of their college-in-prison program or who have a program underway but are looking for ways to enhance or garnish more support for it.

October 1, 2021

College-in-Prison Reentry Initiative

Read Critical Resistance's New Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning Abolition

Read Critical Resistance's New Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning Abolition

September 12, 2021

Critical Resistance

Listen to Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America

A nationwide attempt to censor discussions about race and gender in the classroom is underway – and the academic framework known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) is front-and-center in the assault.

September 7, 2021

Listen to the Our Stories Matter Podcast from Trauma Informed LA

Trauma Informed LA is working to build community partnerships, foster authentic community engagement, and provide education and advocacy.

August 27, 2021

Formerly Incarcerated People Helped Design a Holistic Reentry Program

Formerly Incarcerated People Helped Design a Holistic Reentry Program. Stemming from inhumane isolation practices in Pelican Bay prisons where there is no nature in sight such as trees or other plants. Read about the Insight Garden Program, which connects incarcerated people to hands-on gardening and landscaping training.

August 17, 2021

4 Key Steps to Support Justice Impacted Students

The economic challenges caused by the pandemic make it an especially crucial time for community college leaders to address their needs so they are supporting students who are justice-impacted.

August 17, 2021

Eddie Phillips Jr. and Bradley D. Custer

Read the U.S. Department of Education Announcement about the Expansion of the Second Chance Pell Experiment (2022-2023)

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced it will expand the Second Chance Pell experiment for the 2022-2023 award year.

Hear from Five Formerly or Currently Incarcerated Writers on What Freedom Means to Them

BAZAAR in partnership with PEN America's Prison Writing Program, the women reflect on finding community behind bars, seeking refuge in the arts, and the liberating power of language.

Read "Getting the Record Straight" (Report)

The insidious use of background checks in employment, licensure, housing, and education is yet another example of the perpetual punishment endured by millions of Americans who have conviction records. The user-friendly design of this guide is intended to help people with conviction records navigate individual, institutional, and systemic barriers erected by the practice of background checks. While many valuable guides exist that help people with convictions understand their legal rights, this guide is unique because it aims to help people develop their own narrative. This guide is a continuation of our work to support people with convictions in navigating barriers to education and economic opportunity. Last year, we released Getting to Work with a Criminal Record: New York State License Guides (2020 Expanded Edition), which explains the process for obtaining licenses in 25, high-demand occupations and professions for people with conviction records. We remain committed to increasing access to opportunity for the millions of people impacted by the criminal legal system.

January 26, 2021

Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19 — Toolkit by Mourning Our Losses

Mourning Our Losses is a crowd-sourced memorial to honor the lives of people who died in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We remember the lives of people who died from exposure to abominable public health conditions, as residents and as employees. Mourning Our Losses seeks to restore dignity to the faces and stories behind the statistics of death and illness from behind bars. We believe that a loss of any human life warrants mourning. We are united in our effort to honor our fallen brothers and sisters by telling their stories. We offer a platform for grief, healing, community, and reflection for all those touched by this preventable tragedy.

January 4, 2021

Download Lessons from Second Chance Pell: A Toolkit for Helping Incarcerated Students Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Second Chance Pell (SCP) experiment under the Experimental Sites Initiative, which allows incarcerated students who would be eligible for Pell Grants—a form of federal financial aid—if they were not incarcerated to access them while attending an eligible academic program offered by one of the colleges participating in the experiment. But filing for financial aid while incarcerated can be a formidable challenge. Drawing on the experiences of the first group of SCP colleges, this toolkit, drafted in collaboration with the Chemeketa Community College, is designed to aid new and existing participants as they guide students through the complexities of filing for federal financial aid in prison, including completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA.

December 2, 2020

Watch the Documentary "Seat at the Table"

Seats at the Table is the film portrait of Andrew Kaufman’s University of Virginia Books Behind Bars class which brings together university students with residents of a juvenile correctional center through the study of Russian literature.

September 24, 2020

Watch "Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices" a Series from Netflix

A 2020 Netflix series in which celebrity readers share children's books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love, and antiracism.

September 11, 2020

Read "Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens" a Report from The Education Trust

In "Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens", The Education Trust outlines how to shift the focus away from “fixing kids” and toward addressing adult beliefs and mindsets as well as school and district policies to create an equitable learning environment.

The Education Trust

Get Copies of "The Warbler" for Your Higher Education in Prison Program

The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project newsletter, The Warbler, is available to anyone interested in being on their weekly distribution list.

Alabama Prison Arts + Ecucation Project

Read "Unlocking the Potential of Prison Education" from Inside HigherEd

People in prison have often been relegated to “better than nothing” education, writes Tanya Erzen, and the inequities could become more prevalent during the pandemic.