Marymount Manhattan College is thrilled to announce Sustaining Connections: Community Building in Prisons Through Higher Education, a virtual conference taking place on April 9 and 10, 2021. With a rich and diverse history of college programming in prisons throughout the state, the New York community of college stakeholders continue to find meaningfulRead More →
The University of Maine at Augusta and the Maine Department of Corrections recently held a virtual celebration for the opening of the Doris Buffett Higher Education Center at the Maine State Prison. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the end of the renovation project at MSP, celebrating a 15-year partnership between UMA,Read More →
We should applaud law makers in New Hampshire for reversing severe the cuts to prison rehabilitation and education programs proposed in Gov. Chris Sununu’s budget. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that the cuts would end up costing the state more money than they would save. This isRead More →
One of the things I began thinking about, while in jail for a trial, as what the state could be doing to ensure that people who committed the crime had another shot at a good life. I’d never been in trouble before, so it was hard for me to understandRead More →
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 →