MMC Prison College Program

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Students, faculty, and administrators of Marymount Manhattan College’s continue the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP) and Taconic College Program (TCP) despite the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus in New York State and the resulting limitations on outside visitors to the correctional facilities. A week after the New York State DepartmentRead More →

Hudson Link

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Sean Pica, director of the Hudson Link for Higher Education, was hired in 2007, but recidivism rates for ex-convicts suggested he shouldn’t have job. “It’s 68 percent of the men and women in this country that go to prison return to prison,” he said. “I’m not supposed to be hereRead More →