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Resources

Websites

 

Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Rand Corporation

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Vera Institute of Justice

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World Prison Brief

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Prison Policy Initiative

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Corrections to College California

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College Degree Guide

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Higher Education After Incarceration

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Articles and Reports

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Unlocking Potential: Results of a National Survey of Postsecondary Education in Prisons (Gorgol & Sponsler, 2011)

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Learning to Reduce Recidivism: A 50-State Analysis of Postsecondary Correctional Education Policy (Erisman & Contardo, 2005)

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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (Sherman et al., 1998)

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Investing in Futures: Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Postsecondary Education in Prison (Vera Institute, 2019)

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Momentum for Prison Education (Smith, 2018)

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Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation's Largest Book Ban (PEN America, 2019)

 

The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime (Bacher-Hicks, Billings & Deming, 2019).

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Evaluation of North Carolina's Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Program (Davis & Tolbert, 2019)

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Getting Back on Course: Educational Exclusion and Attainment among Formerly Incarcerated People (Couloute, 2018)

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Measuring Change: From Rates of Recidivism to Markers of Desistance (Klingele, 2019)

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"What Percent of the U.S. is Incarcerated?" (And other Ways to Measure Mass Incarceration) (Wagner & Bertram, 2020)

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Prison Policy Initiative 2018-2019 Annual Report (PPI, 2019)

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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019 (Sawyer & Wagner, 2019)

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States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018 (Wagner & Sawyer, 2018)

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Correctional Control 2018: Incarceration and Supervision by State (Jones, 2018)

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Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth (Aiken, 2017)

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Following the Money of Mass Incarceration (Wagner & Rabuy, 2017)

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Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the Pre-Incarceration Incomes of the Imprisoned (Rabuy & Kopf, 2015)

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The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration (Wagner & Kopf, 2015)

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Don't Stop Now: California Leads the Nation in Using Public Higher Education to Address Mass Incarceration. Will we Continue? (Corrections to College California, 2018)

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Expanding Access to Postsecondary Education in Prison: Fact Sheet for Corrections Leaders (Vera, 2017)

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Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults: Their Skills, Work Experience, Education, and Training (NCES IES, 2014)

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Making the Grade: Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison (Delaney, Subramanian & Patrick, 2016)

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Disproportionate Impact of K-12 School Suspension and Expulsion on Black Students in Southern States (Smith & Harper, 2015)

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Black and White (ACLU RI, 2015)

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How Effective is Correctional Education, and Where do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation (Davis et al., 2014)

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The Degree of Disadvantage: Incarceration and Inequality in Education (Ewert, Sykes & Pettit, 2014)

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education: A Meta-Analysis of Programs that Provide Education to Incarcerated Adults (Davis et al., 2013)

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Are Black Kids Worse? Myths and Facts about Racial Differences in Behavior (Skiba & Williams, 2014)

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The Post-Release Employment and Recidivism among Different Types of Offenders with a Different Lvel of Education: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study in Indiana (Nally et al., 2012)

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The Education of D.C.: How Washington D.C.'s Investments in Education can Help Increase Public Safety (Ashton)

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Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate: Excessive Spending on INcarceration Undermines Educational Opportunity and Public Safety in Communities (NAACP, 2011)

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Education & Incarceration (Western, Schiraldi & Ziedenberg, 2003)

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Education Opportunities in Prison are Key to Reducing Crime (Bender, 2018)

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Videos

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GTL: Using Education to Change Correction

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Offering Prisoners a Second Chance Through Education

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How I Learned to Read - and Trade Stocks - In Prison

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College Behind Bars PBS Trailer

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Why Correctional Education Matters

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Why Invest in College in Prisons?

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The Impact of Prison Education: A Short Documentary

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How Education Gave this Former Prisoner a Second Chance

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Cory Booker Tess the Truth About Our Prison System

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He Who Opens a School Closes a Prison

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Prison to School Pipeline: Education as Transformation

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Turning Prisons into Schools

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Education in Prisons

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The Prison Education Paradox

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Imagining Possibilities: In Class with NYU's Prison Education Program

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How These Inmates are Getting an Ivy League Education

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Inmate University?

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Ban the Box: Kevin Hyde

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