TEACHING
The Prison Studies Project, in collaboration with Boston University’s Prison Education Program and the Massachusetts Department of Correction, offers upper-level college seminars inside local prisons in an effort to bring together students who are incarcerated and Harvard University undergraduates in a transformative learning experience.
RESEARCH
The growth of America’s prison and jail populations over the last 35 years creates an array of new challenges for public policy and provokes a variety of questions about the quality of American democracy and citizenship. To address these challenges and questions, the Prison Studies Project conducts research that examines the scope and consequences of incarceration as well as policy alternatives to incarceration.
OUTREACH
The Prison Studies Project aims to raise public awareness about incarceration in America, promote a perspective on criminal punishment that emphasizes its connection to racial, class and other socioeconomic disadvantages, and inject into the public conversation a discussion of policy alternatives.