I t took Alexa Garza the better part of her 20-year prison sentence to complete a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Had she been incarcerated in a men’s prison, she says, she would have ...

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 ...

Prison education programs are designed to help people succeed after release, but new research suggests they may actually increase participants’ chances of reincarceration. An analysis from Grinnell ...

Prison education professors say outdated facilities, technology restrictions and institutional barriers hinder progress in classrooms otherwise filled with hopeful, motivated students. “We’re going ...

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

MARYSVILLE, Ohio — The incarcerated women looked eager as they gathered outside the building where they would attend a course on Black feminism. The class of 11 convened last month in a room at the ...

The quality of education in young offender institutions (YOIs) in England has seriously declined, according to a recent report from Ofsted and the prisons inspectorate. The report into these ...

Last Christmas, Officer Andrew Lansing was brutally murdered by an inmate at the Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. It was a tragedy that shook the state and renewed urgent ...

I should be a doctor by now. I completed my associate’s degree in 2016, and, after taking a year off to weave an economic safety net of vocational training, I enrolled in a bachelor’s program in the ...

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 ...

The Hope-Western Prison Education Program will hold its first Commencement on Wednesday, June 25, celebrating the graduation of nine men who have earned degrees while incarcerated at Muskegon ...

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