Imagine being newly released from prison, only to find yourself on the streets with no money, perhaps no place to live and no skills to find a job. Studies show that this can seriously lead to recidivism–the released prisoner returning to prison as they have no other way to survive. In 2009 the Second Chance
Texas is a big state. And within this big state with a big heart is the Windham School District, which provides academic and vocational education to eligible offenders incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC.) The Windham School District strongly believes that prison education is the key to reducing recidivism, and by providing
We have a lot of students with low self-esteem. One student I’ll call Mr. Miller* was really, really smart, but he just wasn’t doing anything in class. It dawned on me he didn’t know he was so smart.
Mr. Miller cracked me up one day when he was looking at a world map, and said to me, “I don’t understand why they even label the oceans. Why do they have an Atlantic Ocean, a Pacific Ocean, and a Lake Michigan? When you’re in a boat and you’re just driving along, or you’re in a ship and you’re riding along, there are no signs out there that say what ocean it is. Who cares what it’s called? Why’d they even have to name them? You just have to go across them.”
I’m very proud to alert you about a new staffing acquisition. In an effort to become more timely and professional, we have brought on a staff blogger. This blogger – who was acquired through our website management firm Intimo Media – will be scouring the web on a daily basis for breaking prison education news
I had a very frustrating day the other day! For several weeks the Education Department at FCI-Petersburg has been trying to get me in contact with a gentleman who recently earned his GED. He had expressed a desire to further his studies at either the career-level or college-level. But, he didn’t have any funds to pursue a higher-level education. So, they called in me. After all, I’m now their go-to guy in terms of correspondence programs and prison education.
I’m sad to inform you that yet another giant has fallen in the realm of correspondence correctional education. Following Brigham Young University’s example, Excelsior College has discontinued all of its paper-based coursework and examinations as of September 30, 2011.
In response to one of my letters, Excelsior College noted “I regret to inform you that Excelsior College will no longer be administering credit by examination through paper & pencil format effective September 30, 2011. The only way to take an Excelsior College exam will be through a Pearson Vue Testing Center.
In 1860, Bard College was founded, then known as St. Stephens’s College overlooking the Hudson River in New York. The college began as a preperation for men to enter into seminaries, and over the years until present time, have evolved their curriculum into “higher intellectual and artistic goals.” The very prestigious Bard College of today, embraces science, arts, music, dance, film and other liberal arts academia.
The Institute of Writing & Thinking was born from visionaries within Bard College and in 1999, many of the founders of this particular Institute formed the Bard Prison Initiative.
Within the prison walls of Idaho’s Department of Corrections facilities is a school that has helped over 500 inmates receive their GED’s as well as ten inmates who received their high school diplomas. The school is called the Robert Janss School and is accredited through the Idaho Department of Education, and operates within seven of
The Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary located in Houston Texas, has teamed up with one of Texas’s maximum security prisons, Rosharon, to allow a select few inmates to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Biblical Studies. The program, which is supported by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Southwest Theological Seminary, Southern Baptists of