In the United States today, approximately 1.8 million people are behind bars, and less than 5 percent of them will complete a college degree, according to recent statistics. This leaves many grappling ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—OROFINO — Lance Barnes is almost halfway through a 10-year prison sentence at the Idaho Correctional Institution in ...

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 ...

A $2.9M grant is expanding education and re-entry support for incarcerated students in Vermont.

New report highlights early success of bipartisan legislation aimed at expanding higher education access in prisons ...