U.S. Prison Education Programs
University Beyond Bars recognizes the efforts of other education programs in prisons across the U.S. UBB thinks of these programs as allies and we encourage you to look at their websites and their ongoing work in education and social justice.
PROGRAMS
Friday Center for Continuing Education with North Carolina Department for Corrections, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prison Outreach, Georgetown University, Virginia.
Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan.
Changing Lives Through Literature, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Bard Prison Initiative, Bard University, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Hudson Link, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York.
Prison Performing Arts, St. Louis, Missouri.
Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP), Women’s Correctional Facility, Marymount Manhattan College, New York.
Education Justice Project, the University of Illinois.
Rend Lake College at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, Illinois.
The Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton University, New Jersey.
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.
Center for Prison Education, Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
Center for Prison Outreach and Education, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).
Liberal Arts in Prison, Grinnell, Iowa.
The Fortune Society, Long Island City, New York.
Prison University Project, San Quentin Prison, California.
The College Bound Consortium, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Prison Studies Project, Harvard University, Massachusetts.
St. Louis University College-in-Prison Program, St Louis, Missouri.
Cornell Prison Education Program, New York State.
Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, Auburn, Alabama.
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Partnership for Religion and Education (PREP), Drew University, Theological School
Project for Inmate Education, University of California Santa Cruz, California.
Oakdale Prison Community Choir, Coralville, Iowa.
Eastern Illinois University.
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.
Greenville College, Illinois.
University of Iowa College of Law.
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All the organizations listed above participated in the Education Justice Project (EJP) symposium hosted by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in September 2010. You can learn more about each of these organizations by downloading the EJP Directory on Higher Ed Prison Programs (PDF).