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CPE Receives Grant

By PrisonEducation.com  The Center for Prison Education has received a grant of $300,000 from the Ford Foundation, supporting the continuation of the program, which has delivered a Wesleyan education to Connecticut prisons since 2009. The grant will not only help fund the classes taught at the Cheshire and York Correctional Institutions but also support CPE’s

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Seventh Circuit Upholds Removal of Prisoner’s Dreadlocks

By Prison Legal News The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prisoner’s religious rights were not violated when prison officials required him to cut off his dreadlocks to be transported to a court hearing. Peter A. Lewis, incarcerated at the Dixon Correctional Center, is a member of a religious sect called

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