Like many other students, Jerry Huskey studied for a college accounting final exam Wednesday, the day before Lincoln ...

The struggles of prisoners illustrate flaws in Nebraska’s prison education system despite some recent successes. Getting a post-secondary education while incarcerated is challenging, confusing and ...

Harry Harrington beamed with pride after being named the most “persistent and dedicated” student in his graduating class. The barbed wire and tall gates define his past as an incarcerated prisoner, ...

I have been in prison for 33 years now, and for 28 of those years I tried, unsuccessfully, to get an education. When I was on death row, I was told by corrections officers that getting an education ...

When Congress lifted a 26-year ban on providing federal Pell Grants for people in prison, federal regulators and criminal-justice advocates worried that, without adequate safeguards, the education ...

HUDSON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Higher education is coming to incarcerated individuals at Hudson Correctional Facility. A new Prison ...

The Northern Nevada Correctional Center will host a graduation ceremony on June 10 at 10 a.m. to honor incarcerated students who have transformed their lives through education. The event celebrates ...

The University of Utah Prison Education Project is one of the nation's leaders in prison education programs. Class sizes vary, but there are always those who want to learn. (Prison Education Project) ...

Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in Santee. This fall will be my third time teaching introductory computer science inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

Although Frank Alexander II spent his time incarcerated working in offices, healthcare and a print shop, he was told upon release that he would be “better off at a restaurant washing dishes” because ...

Loyola University New Orleans has received approval from the U.S. Department of Education to offer Pell Grants to students enrolled in its Prison Education Program at B.B. Rayburn Correctional Center, ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program, already the largest higher education prison program in the state, is expanding to serve women incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in ...