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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

Robert E. Burton Adult School graduation celebrates GED and vocational achievements

September 1, 2017 by Juan Haines

GED and vocational graduates from the Robert E. Burton school

Richard Johnson, 66, a columnist for the Oakland Post, did something he believed impossible while in prison; he attended a ceremony wearing a cap and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, Featured

Schools using Restorative Justice practices

April 24, 2017 by Forrest Lee Jones

American schools and criminal justice systems are using Restorative Justice (RJ) more and more as a remedy to keep people from going to prison, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

Change Should Start While Incarcerated

April 1, 2015 by James R. Abernathy Jr.

If you want to change your life, you need to start working on yourself while still in prison, a former cop-turned-convict-turned-counselor advised a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EDUCATION, Featured Tagged With: Rehabilitation Corner

Prison University Project Presents Its 12th Annual Open Mic Reading

January 1, 2015 by Juan Haines

An audience of inmates and community volunteers gathered in San Quentin’s Catholic chapel the day after Christmas to hear more than two dozen inmates … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS, EDUCATION

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