First Class: Starting a Postsecondary Education Program in Prison
Topics:
Correctional Education
Second Chance Month
Youth/Young Adults
According to this guide from the Vera Institute of Justice, starting a college program in prison is a significant undertaking that will profoundly affect the lives of students, faculty, and staff. The prison environment presents administrators with norms and rules for operating wholly unlike those of a typical college.
Vera created this guide for colleges and corrections departments seeking to set up new programs to help program coordinators launch a college-in-prison program—from the decision to undertake this work to the first day of class.