A privately funded program provides higher education to about 300 students in New York state prisons. Graduates are less likely to get in legal trouble after prison but getting hired is a challenge. Read More
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UVM Announces New Liberal Arts in Prison Program
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont is launching a new program aimed at helping incarcerated men and women take coursework towards a college degree while serving their sentences. The UVM Liberal Arts in Prison Program (LAPP), administered by the university’s College of Arts… Read More
Here’s the most cost-effective way to solve our prison crisis
Anthony Cardenales began stealing fruit as a youngster in the South Bronx, and by the time he was 17 he was in prison, serving a 17-year sentence for murder.... Read More
Scholars Behind Bars
American higher education has to deal much with bad news, as any quick scan of the country’s front pages will confirm: skyrocketing costs, runaway debt, sexual violence, and sluggish students more interested in partying than learning. But consider the following description of Bard College… Read More
Goucher College to grant bachelor’s degrees behind bars
Now inmates have that chance: Goucher College has earned permission to confer a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies behind bars. Read More
Life Beyond Bars: One Man’s Journey From Prison to College
Juan Echevarria killed a man. He spent 14 years in prison. Now he desperately wants a college degree. Getting one may be the hardest thing he’s ever had to do. Read More
Applebee’s Saved My Life’: A Franchise Owner Gives Former Inmates A Second Chance
Marcellus Benbow, 35, has spent most of his adult life cycling in and out of New York State prisons, including Attica and Auburn, on drug-related charges. Six foot five, the tattoos and on both arm include his five daughters, his wife, his neighborhood and… Read More
Prison Inmates Argue Their Way to a Win Against West Point
The debate team of New York prison inmates who beat Harvard College last fall had another triumph Friday, this time against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Read More
Max Kenner: Prison Path to Higher Learning
Max Kenner, 37 Founder and Executive Director, Bard Prison Initiative Annandale- on-Hudson, N.Y. At a time when many people question the value of a liberal- arts education, Max Kenner believes — fervently — that studying the humanities and sciences can transform lives. The prison-tutoring project he started in… Read More
New York Prison Inmates Trounce Harvard Debate Team
It sounds like a storyline out of Hollywood, but it happened on a prison stage in front of national college debate judges. Read More