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)
Social Equality
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)