Program Website: Contacts: 444 Green St. Gardner, MA 01440 978-632-6600 Admissions: 978-630-9110 Program Description: The program’s goal is to lower recidivism rates by providing people who are incarcerated with skills needed to enter college, as well as the field of advanced manufacturing. Incarcerated people who are between six months to 2.5 years from release, who […]
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Emerson Prison Initiative
Program Website: http://epi.emerson.edu/ Contacts: Mneesha Gellman Director of Emerson Prison Initiative Email: [email protected] 617-824-3869 Program Description:The Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) provides high-quality college courses to people incarcerated in Massachusetts. EPI’s mission is to democratize access to tertiary education for those who have been historically marginalized or otherwise unable to attend college. EPI aims to offer […]
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)