With the launch of the University of California Irvine’s LIFTED – Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees – program, California is further establishing itself as the nation’s leader in bringing public higher education to people in prison. And support among […]
Category Archives: Education for Inmates
Luci Harrell becomes Georgia’s first incarcerated law school student
Luci Harrell is, she and others believe, the first person to attend law school in Georgia while incarcerated. But it wasn’t an easy thing to do. Over the last two years, she has earned a masters degree in mass communications […]
Indiana inmate creates job search PowerPoint presentation
An inmate at a women’s prison in Madison, Ind., created a PowerPoint presentation of our book, Jails to Jobs: Seven Steps to Becoming Employed. And we’re happy to share her Jails to Jobs PPT with readers who might want to do something […]
Jails to Jobs’ book in every New South Wales, Australia prison
When we set a goal of getting our book, Jails to Jobs: Seven Steps to Becoming Employed, in every prison library in the United States, we had no idea our reach would extend beyond that. But it has. We recently […]
What makes a good prison library
At Jails to Jobs we realize the importance of inmates getting access to job search information so they’ll be ready to hit the pavement upon release. And one way to get that information is by spending time in the library […]
California expands college opportunities for inmates
An agreement signed this spring between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office will provide the first-ever funding to California community colleges for courses taught inside state prisons. Beginning with four pilot project […]
Jails to Jobs launches books to prison libraries program
Thanks to funding from a generous donor, Jails to Jobs has launched a new campaign to get its book, Jails to Jobs; Seven Steps to Becoming Employed, in the library of every jail and prison in the U.S. And we’re […]
WiderNet Project brings online resources to correctional facilities
The WiderNet Project, a Chapel Hill, N.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to reducing the digital divide worldwide, is expanding its Corrections Off-line Education Platform (COEP), so that more inmates will be able to access the type of information found online. The organization‘s eGranary […]
Blackstone helps inmates prepare for a legal career while in prison
Ambitious inmates who want to lay the groundwork for employment after release might want to consider studying a paralegal course. And they won’t be alone. They will join Fabian Ruiz – who we profiled October 31 and who now works […]