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Moving from Prison to a PhD

Nature By Virginia Gewin Most applications to academic institutions around the world include a box to check if a student has a criminal history,...

The Register-Herald By Wendy Holdren By volunteering just a few hours each month, mentors can change the lives of the men and women asking for h...

NJTV News By Erin Delmore “When a fellow coming out of prison gets a job, it helps everyone,” said Sen. Cory Booker. A million dollar federal...

Governing By John Wetzel and Robin L. Wiessmann One of the many challenges facing corrections officials and policymakers across the c...

Albuquerque Journal By Matthew Reisen With only months remaining on a 10-year sentence for drug trafficking, 38-year-old Justin Mack says he wan...

SYS-CON MEDIA By PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (PA-02), the lead Democrat on ...

The Pantagraph By Edith Brady-Lunny SPRINGFIELD — A new Illinois law gives a break to ex-offenders who finish high school and other courses whil...

WCBI By William Folkes Columbus Lowndes Chamber of Commerce and the Paroled to Pride organization are fighting recidivism rates. Paroled to P...

WKTV It was a different type of commencement ceremony Tuesday–in an unlikely place–the Oneida County Jail, and the graduates were inmates. M...

The New York Times By John Leland Venita Pinckney grew up around Catholic schools and churches, and she thought she knew about nuns. Then a smal...