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Incarcerated Students With Life Sentences Are Missing From Inclusion Conversations, Advocates Say

There are more people sentenced to prison for life than the entire prison population in the early 1970s, according to a 2018 report by the Sentencing Project. That’s one in seven prisoners, over 206,000 people, including life sentences without the possibility of parole, life sentences with the possibility of parole and “virtual” life sentences of at least 50 years. And yet this sprawling population is often left out of conversations about prison education – and sometimes barred from programs themselves – because of an emphasis on preparing students for release and employment.

February 25, 2021

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Expert Advocates Freeing Minds of Prisoners to See Potential

Higher education during incarceration is spotlighted through Max Kenner’s Bard Prison Initiative.

December 10, 2014