Exchanging ideas on how to create educational opportunities for incarcerated people and reentry services was the topic of a national conference held in Texas last November. “It was a chance for our different organizations to support each other and … [Read more...]
Factores incrementan/disminuyen posibilidades
Recientes cambios legales y en materia de regulación han incrementado las posibilidades de los presos cumpliendo una sentencia de vida a obtener su libertad condicional. El período de “duros con el crimen” (tough on crime) implementado en … [Read more...]
Higher age, fewer write-ups boost parole chances
Recent legal and regulatory changes have vastly improved the likelihood of an inmate being granted parole. During the past decades of California’s “tough on crime” era it seemed like a soccer game. No one ever seemed to score a parole grant. It was … [Read more...]
White House award to Jody Lewen
As students with makeshift backpacks and see-through plastic folders hustle in and out of an education building, teachers greet their students by name. It is a college campus at San Quentin, where the Prison University Project works to transform … [Read more...]