Diplomas represent the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and commitment to education inside MacDougall–Walker Correctional Institution. Photo credit: Karen Pearson Zelda Roland, Ph.D., ...

The struggles of prisoners illustrate flaws in Nebraska’s prison education system despite some recent successes. Getting a post-secondary education while incarcerated is challenging, confusing and ...

Michigan leaders in prison education met to discuss strategies for expanding post-secondary education within the state’s prison system at a conference where officials highlighted significant growth ...

As community colleges replace courses by mail with online classes, students and professors debate whether this type of ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program, already the largest higher education prison program in the state, is expanding to serve women incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in ...

The University of New Haven joined the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) in 2021, marking a significant step forward in expanding access to higher education for incarcerated individuals. With ...

Oregon native Ryan Cooney stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth. He was technically at home, in the second game of the Ducks’... During the fall, the University of Oregon Prison Education ...

This post was updated July 21 at 8:38 p.m. The Prison Education Program is allowing UCLA students to learn with incarcerated students by visiting local prisons through a new class. The PEP offers ...

West Kentucky Community and Technical College held a free screening of “Shakespeare Behind Bars” at Maiden Alley Cinema ...

I have been in prison for 33 years now, and for 28 of those years I tried, unsuccessfully, to get an education. When I was on death row, I was told by corrections officers that getting an education ...