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Second Chance Fellows—About the Visiting Fellows Program

The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program invests in future and current leaders in the crimina...

A Piece of the Puzzle: State Financial Aid for Incarcerated Students

This report from the Vera Institute of Justice examines state financial aid for incarcerated students. Incarcerated students who are unable to ac...

May 23, 2024

Pipeline to Pell: Leveraging Environmental Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship Pathways (Green Jobs) for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Register for this Webinar The Office of Correctional Education, in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, T...

June 14, 2011

Education and the World of Work: Anchors to a Strong Juvenile Reentry Plan

On June 15, 2011, the National Reentry Resource Center hosted this webinar, which described the elements of strong educational programs in residential...

October 24, 2024

How West Coast Higher Education Institutions are Removing Barriers to Correctional Education

2:00–3:00 pm Eastern Register for this Webinar The Office of Correctional Education, in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Tec...

Florida Expands Education Opportunities for Prisoners

WLRN By Shawn Mulcahy Florida prisoners will have new education opportunities under a law signed by Gov. Rick Scott. In an overinflated job m...

U.S. Department of Education Announces It Will Expand the Second Chance Pell Experiment for the 2022-2023 Award Year

On July 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced it will expand the Second Chance Pell experiment for the 2022-2023 award...

Eligibility of Confined or Incarcerated Individuals to Receive Pell Grants

The FAFSA Simplification Act (the Act), signed into law in December 2020, restored Pell Grant eligibility to individuals who are confined or incarce...

Federal Interagency Reentry Council: A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future

The long-term, sometimes lifelong, impact of a criminal record often keeps many qualified people from obtaining employment and accessing housing, hi...

Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach

This online article from USA Today discusses the expansion of Pell Grants that were eliminated in the 1994 crime bill for people in prison and ended t...

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