The annual National Conference on Higher Education in Prison (NCHEP) is not only an event—it's a lifeline for the community of people who are committed to expanding educational opportunities for students who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies is organized around a selection of key historical and contemporary events and themes, bringing together archival and reference materials, court cases, first-hand accounts, videos, Supreme Court audio files, research on rehabilitation, training materials and artistic works.
We are working collaboratively to advance the field of higher education in prison by supporting practitioners and students, producing reliable data and research, and communicating the need, importance, and value of quality higher education in prison.
CCF works at the intersection of racial equity, criminal legal reform, economic justice, and community building. We are one of the first organizations to focus on access to higher education for justice-involved women.
We aim to create a next-generation tool to support incarcerated students conducting research without access to the internet. We will test this tool at a cohort of prison education programs, in order to make a recommendation regarding how to provide full access to JSTOR to as many higher education in prison programs as possible.
Prison-to-Professionals (P2P) seeks to reach, touch, and change the lives of people with criminal convictions through advocacy, mentoring, and policy change.
Incarceration is a peer-reviewed, international journal publishing high quality original scholarship dealing with prisons and prison-like institutions and practices.
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world.
The Journal of Correctional Education is the foremost publication of the Correctional Education Association (CEA). The Journal is published on a quarterly basis and is provided as a membership benefit by CEA.
The Journal of Higher Education in Prison is the only peer-reviewed journal that publishes solely on topics and issues in higher education in prison. The journal, published twice-annually by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, provides the growing field of higher education in prison a forum to discuss praxis and the ways that theory can and should inform teaching and learning in prison.
An international, open access, peer-reviewed journal for researchers and practitioners. Topics covered include but are not limited to sociology, criminology, adult education and literacy, instructional design, mental and behavioral health, and administration and policy as it relates to the context of prisoner education and subsequent reentry into the community beyond prison walls.
The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions.
The Prison Journal (TPJ), peer-reviewed and published six times a year, is a central forum for studies, ideas, and discussions of adult and juvenile confinement, treatment interventions, and alternative sanctions. Exploring broad themes of punishment and correctional intervention, TPJ advances theory, research, policy and practice.
A four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States.
Representatives from the most innovative and dynamic programs in the country testify to the range, scope, and depth of prison education. Organizers highlight the work that has been done at Harvard, and what's next.