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How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked The American Dream

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Texas prison program aims to produce business-savvy inmates

January 22, 2015 By Jeff Grant, Online Editor Leave a Comment

Texas prison program aims to produce business-savvy inmates Reprinted from ap.com, Jan. 17, 2015 , By HENRY C. JACKSON TJI Editor's Note: The Justice Imperative Editorial Board Member & Senior Writer Brian Moran forwarded us this article to reprint.  It's a wonderful story.  Similarly, this afternoon my wife Lynn & I attended the Hudson Link/Nyack College graduation ceremony of twenty-four inmates at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Upstate New York.  What a powerful and moving thing it is to see family and friends gather in support of these men who received their bachelors degrees behind bars.  Thank you Sean Pica and all at Hudson Link for the invitation. - Jeff … [Read more...]

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Zero Percent: A Conversation on College Education Inside Sing Sing Prison

October 13, 2014 By Babz Rawls Ivy, Online Editor 1 Comment

Zero Percent: A Conversation on College Education Inside Sing Sing Prison Please join us for a screening of “Zero Percent," the director’s cut version of the award-winning HBO documentary on the Hudson Link Program for Higher Education in Prison, followed by a Q/A with the program’s staff and alumni. Yale Law School 127 Wall st. Thursday, October 16th 6 P.M. Room 127 Free Non-Pizza Dinner    Sponsored by the Green Haven Prison Project, the Yale Divinity School, the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, the African American Cultural Center at Yale, the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, the Yale Black Seminarians & the Evangelical Fellowship at Yale Divinity School.  … [Read more...]

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