Tag: Correctional Education

Opinion

Correctional Education: “America’s Balm of Gilead”

At no time post-civil rights, has there been a period that has offered a brighter glimmer of hope to the countless thousands of incarcerated offenders in America as we are experiencing today. The reemergence of correctional education opportunities through the Second Chance Pell initiative has given hope to prisoners who were not fully engaged in something as beneficial/rewarding as postsecondary education and without much hope.

November 6, 2019

Faculty & Staff

Former Prisoner Advocates for Social Justice

Dwayne Betts, imprisoned for more than eight years, has turned his life around and become an author, teacher, poet and advocate for social issues.

January 25, 2016

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Catholic University Finds Clemency Project Rewarding Experience

CUA’s Columbus School of Law is one of 30 law schools involved in the Clemency Project 2014 that screens clemency applications of drug offenders caught up in sentencing practices that emerged during the nation’s war on drugs.

January 18, 2016

African-American

Expanding Postsecondary Opportunities for Incarcerated Americans

In the past three decades the United States’ incarceration rate has exploded, with seven million people currently behind bars, on probation, or parole.

August 12, 2015

Students

In Case You Missed It…

Last Year, Fewer Black Men Applied to Med School than in 1978 Senate Seeks Ways to Take Income Out of Graduation Rate Equation Admissions Pro Advises Opting to Write Essay Prison Ed Program Based on Second Chances

August 6, 2015

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Administration Wants to Give Prisoners Access to Pell Grants

The Obama administration is taking steps to expand the Pell grant program to prisoners.

July 28, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Judge Denies Freed Illinois Man Certificate of Innocence

A Cook County judge on Thursday denied a certificate of innocence to a man whose murder conviction was overturned, saying the man’s own actions led to a finding of his guilt—including a confession that helped free a death row inmate in a case key to ending capital punishment in Illinois.

June 18, 2015

African-American

The Lunar New Year Starts and the Day of Remembrance Never Ends

Special times as communities celebrate and commemorate.

February 23, 2015

Native Americans

Native Explorer

In this issue, Diverse profiles the Bard Prison Initiative and other prison education programs, as well as higher ed programs that focus on recruiting and retaining Native American students.

December 3, 2014

African-American

Ex-Offender/Law School Grad’s White House Access Plight Brings Reality to Table

When a delegation went to the White House recently to deliver a set of policy recommendations related to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, one brother was kept out — ostensibly because of his background as an ex-offender.

June 8, 2014

African-American

Trial Date for Five Charged in FAMU Hazing Death Set

The five remaining defendants charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major are headed for trial.

May 27, 2014

Students

Gilda R. Daniels – Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore

A voting rights expert, Daniels is an associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches critical legal theory, election law and civil procedure. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, law and democracy. Her law review articles have appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the Denver University […]

April 25, 2014