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Opinion: This prison education program helps inmates break out of defeating cycles
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoUtah’s SLCC Prison Education Program helps inmates prepare for life after prison and reduces rates...
Tennessee has wide disparities in its prison education programs. Can new Pell grants help?
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn a bright yellow library behind the barbed wire gates at Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility in...
Prison education programs ready to expand, but new Pell Grants slow to arrive
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMARYSVILLE, Ohio — The incarcerated women looked eager as they gathered outside the building where...
Guest: Prison education is a formula for success, and Oklahoma has all the right parts
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn recent years, Oklahoma has been among the nation’s leaders in its high rate of incarceration, and...
Former Oklahoma House Speaker wants to go back to Square One on criminal justice
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMcLOUD — Kris Steele keeps pushing a giant boulder up a huge mountain. The boulder, however, is...
Gunnigle, Mitchell: Maricopa County attorney candidates talk abortion, incarceration rates
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTwo candidates with differing attitudes toward the criminal justice system are running to lead one...
Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders – focusing on intervention instead of...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBlack men disproportionately make up the US prison population. AP Photo/Rich PedroncelliRacial...
New federal rule helps prison inmates pay for college. Here’s how California will benefit
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn January, Michael Love was released from prison after 35 years. Four months later he returned, but...
Oklahomans with criminal records can change lives. Let's be a state that honors 2nd chances
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne of us — Tammy Franklin — grew up in a home in Oklahoma marked by darkness, neglect and alcohol....
Building new prisons not needed, state rep. says in push for construction ban
The Metrowest Daily News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBOSTON — There's a "groundswell" on Beacon Hill to implement a five-year jail and prison...