Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants.
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