The Vera Institute of Justice's Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series features Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York. In this podcast, Professor Freudenberg discusses REAL MEN (Returning Educated African-American and Latino Men to Enriched Neighborhoods), a reentry program using education, treatment, and a strength-based approach designed to reduce drug use, risky sexual behavior, and criminal activity among 16- to 18-year-old males leaving New York City jails.
What If Disaster Strikes Here?
Jared Bozydaj is an incarcerated writer and activist. He is the co-founder of Products of Our Environment, a collaborative of scholars and artists working on issues of environmental justice and incarceration across the prison wall, which is supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Adam Roberts, a founding member of the Attica Wri ...
A Snapshot of Quality, Equity, and Scale in Prison Education Programs
Pell Grant restoration took effect on July 1, 2023, making incarcerated people in the United States eligible for need-based federal postsecondary financial aid for the first time in nearly 30 years. Since the launch of the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP) in 2016, more than 45,000 incarcerated students have enrolled in SCP pro ...
Advancing Racial Equity and Inclusion in Prison Education Programs
The July 2023 return of Pell Grant eligibility for all people in prisons brings not only a monumental shift in opportunity but also a responsibility to ensure that everyone—regardless of race or ethnicity—gets access to that opportunity and the support to make use of it. To bridge the gap between promising practices for advancing equity in postseco ...