Thursday, November 10, 2011, 5:00 PM Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA (Photo courtesy “Liz Fink Photo Collection” at www.talkinghistory.org/attica) Please join us for an evening to remember the Attica prison uprising, explore prison abolition and honor Eddie Ellis, a living legend. Son of Jamaican immigrants, Ellis was born […]
Boston University Prison Education Program
The Boston University Prison Education Program was founded by labor organizer, tenant activist, and poet Elizabeth Barker. Together with BU President John Silber, Barker worked to have the Boston University Prison Education Program offer its first credit-bearing college courses at MCI/Norfolk, in 1972…(read more)
Prison Studies Project (PSP)
In September 2008, Kaia Stern and Bruce Western launched the Prison Studies Project (PSP) at Harvard University. PSP is a group of students, teachers and researchers with a shared interest in the American punishment system. Our project promotes informed conversation about the challenges of mass incarceration through an interdisciplinary approach committed to education and policy change…(read more)
University Beyond Bars (UBB)
University Beyond Bars (UBB) provides higher education to incarcerated men on-site at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Washington. UBB’s mission is twofold: 1) to transform Washington’s prisons into communities of learning by providing post-secondary education to the incarcerated, particularly to prisoners of color, and 2) to educate the public about prison issues. The men who are incarcerated who have earned their GED can choose from two educational pathways: one offers non-credit, college-level courses and the offers credit-bearing college courses. We have expanded to provide college preparatory instruction as well. Our twice monthly Arts and Lectures series, with guest speakers from a variety of disciplines, is open to all people who are incarcerated at the facility.
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth
The college prep classes at Green Hill and Maple Lane offer incarcerated participants the opportunity to work with teachers and students from The Evergreen State College…(read more)