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Faculty & Staff

Howard Univ. Honors Mandela in Photo Exhibit

“Nelson Mandela: Character, Comrade, Leader, Prisoner, Negotiator, Statesmen,” a 37-panel exhibit chronicling Mandela’s rise to South Africa’s first Black president, made its debut at Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center on Oct. 31.

December 8, 2013

Students

Former Florida A&M Band Member Pleads No Contest in Hazing Death

A former Florida A&M University student faces a possible prison term after he pleaded no contest Tuesday to the felony hazing of a drum major who died.

April 16, 2013

Latinx

Forum: Black Male Incarceration Adds to Social Woes Predicted in Moynihan Report

Scholar and author Michelle Alexander says misguided criminal justice policies have worsened conditions for poor Black families far beyond what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted in 1965.

February 24, 2013

Sports

From Jail to Juris Doctor

James King’s experience on the undesirable side of the legal system spurred his drive to become a lawyer and help the disadvantaged.

October 10, 2012

African-American

Black Male Incarceration Crisis: Transparency and Education Are Key in Effecting Change

Transparency and education are the best ways to start changing the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights in the United States, concurred a panel of experts at a session at the Seventh Annual Black Male Initiative Conference at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island.

October 7, 2012

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Panelists Agree Compelling Evidence Needed To Make Case for Incarcerated Individuals To Regain Eligibility for Pell Grant

Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education, said more needs to be done to expand access to higher education to those behind bars when the GED is the highest degree attained by one-third of those in prison.

October 3, 2011

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Policy Report Cites Prison Population as Target for College Attainment

In the national push to increase degree attainment throughout the United States, a new report urges policy-makers to focus more attention on providing post-secondary education to those who are behind bars.

May 10, 2011

STEM

Alabama Prisons Big Beneficiary of Education Stimulus Money

The biggest recipient of Alabama’s federal stimulus dollars for education isn’t a school system or college. It’s the state prison system.

December 22, 2010

Community Colleges

Locked Out of Higher Education

State budget cuts are crippling support for prison education programs throughout the U.S.

March 2, 2010

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Prison Seminary Program Gives Inmates Second Chance

The graduates patted each other’s backs and nervously chatted with their families. Some sat quietly, meditating about their future while others wept.

June 10, 2009

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More Blacks and Hispanics Live in Jail than in College Dorms

WASHINGTON More than three times as many Black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday.

September 26, 2007

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Just the Stats: Prison Inmates More Literate Than Before

A recent study suggests new prison inmates are more educated than cohorts from a 1992 study, and more of their parents are college-educated. In fact, the literacy scores of Black and Hispanic inmates were higher than those of Black and Hispanic high school dropouts living in society.

May 17, 2007