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Senate Bill 3435 Beyond the box for higher education

May 1, 2019 by Michael Jace

About two-thirds of post-secondary institutions ask applicants to submit criminal history, according to The Crime Report. The Center for Community … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, POLITICS, RE-ENTRY Tagged With: crime report, Education, Institutions, senate bill 3435

The formerly incarcerated face uphill battle with education and work

February 5, 2019 by Richard B. Evans

The formerly incarcerated are often relegated to the lowest rung of the educational ladder, a recent report concludes.  Prisoners and former … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, RE-ENTRY

Reading Can Make You Free

February 1, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

How can I explain the joy that I set from reading? Words can’t explain it. Never the less here in my speech today I will express in human language … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION Tagged With: letters

GED class develops handcrafted DNA

October 15, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

In a classroom at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, inmate students had an opportunity to do something “outside the box.” Instead of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION Tagged With: Norco, STEM

Exclusive screening ‘From Incarceration to Education’

August 8, 2018 by Joe Garcia

University of California at Berkeley filmmakers visited San Quentin for an exclusive screening of “From Incarceration to Education,” an original … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, Uncategorized Tagged With: Berkeley’s Underground Scholars Initiative, Christian Collins, filmmakers, From Incarceration to Education, Richard Rodriguez-Leo, San Quentin, Shalita Williams, Skylar Economy, UC Berkeley, UC graduate students, UCLA, USI

Norco program provides more than just an education

June 11, 2018 by Forrest Lee Jones

Prisoners at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco are getting a higher education and earning time off their sentences through the Norco … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION Tagged With: Bryan Reece, California Rehabilitation Center, Communications Storytelling class, ged, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Jason Parks, Norco, Norco College, Rand Corp

A path of criminal justice takes an educational turn

April 19, 2018 by Jesse Vasquez

Ms. Garcia at work in her office

Corporate executives and administration officials have a high turnover rate, but secretaries tend to stick around, and some have interesting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editorial, EDUCATION Tagged With: Profiles

Arizona's first Prison Education Program graduation

April 19, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

First graduating class spring 2017

Educational ground was broken at an Arizona penitentiary when a group of inmates became the first graduates of the Arizona Prison Education Project … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION Tagged With: Marcia Klotz, University of Arizona

Education organizations trade ideas at national conference

February 16, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Jody Lewen addressing the audience while former students Dmitry Orlov and David Cowan listen

Exchanging ideas on how to create educational opportunities for incarcerated people and reentry services was the topic of a national conference held … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, Featured Tagged With: Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, Amy Jamgochian, Jody Lewen, Life After Life, Prison University Project, PUP, The Marshall Project, The Return

Iowa elementary schools uses isolation as punishment

December 11, 2017 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

US Map

Elementary school children are being placed in makeshift prison cells. Multiple Iowa school districts are using this controversial isolation as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CRIMINAL JUSTICE, EDUCATION

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