Doctor of Education, Higher Education
Resources
Websites
Corrections to College California
Higher Education After Incarceration
Articles and Reports
Unlocking Potential: Results of a National Survey of Postsecondary Education in Prisons (Gorgol & Sponsler, 2011)
Learning to Reduce Recidivism: A 50-State Analysis of Postsecondary Correctional Education Policy (Erisman & Contardo, 2005)
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (Sherman et al., 1998)
Investing in Futures: Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Postsecondary Education in Prison (Vera Institute, 2019)
Momentum for Prison Education (Smith, 2018)
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).
Evaluation of North Carolina's Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Program (Davis & Tolbert, 2019)
Getting Back on Course: Educational Exclusion and Attainment among Formerly Incarcerated People (Couloute, 2018)
Measuring Change: From Rates of Recidivism to Markers of Desistance (Klingele, 2019)
"What Percent of the U.S. is Incarcerated?" (And other Ways to Measure Mass Incarceration) (Wagner & Bertram, 2020)
Prison Policy Initiative 2018-2019 Annual Report (PPI, 2019)
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019 (Sawyer & Wagner, 2019)
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018 (Wagner & Sawyer, 2018)
Correctional Control 2018: Incarceration and Supervision by State (Jones, 2018)
Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth (Aiken, 2017)
Following the Money of Mass Incarceration (Wagner & Rabuy, 2017)
Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the Pre-Incarceration Incomes of the Imprisoned (Rabuy & Kopf, 2015)
The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration (Wagner & Kopf, 2015)
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)
Expanding Access to Postsecondary Education in Prison: Fact Sheet for Corrections Leaders (Vera, 2017)
Highlights from the U.S. PIAAC Survey of Incarcerated Adults: Their Skills, Work Experience, Education, and Training (NCES IES, 2014)
Making the Grade: Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison (Delaney, Subramanian & Patrick, 2016)
Disproportionate Impact of K-12 School Suspension and Expulsion on Black Students in Southern States (Smith & Harper, 2015)
The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Black and White (ACLU RI, 2015)
How Effective is Correctional Education, and Where do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation (Davis et al., 2014)
The Degree of Disadvantage: Incarceration and Inequality in Education (Ewert, Sykes & Pettit, 2014)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education: A Meta-Analysis of Programs that Provide Education to Incarcerated Adults (Davis et al., 2013)
Are Black Kids Worse? Myths and Facts about Racial Differences in Behavior (Skiba & Williams, 2014)
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)
Education & Incarceration (Western, Schiraldi & Ziedenberg, 2003)
Education Opportunities in Prison are Key to Reducing Crime (Bender, 2018)
Videos
GTL: Using Education to Change Correction
Offering Prisoners a Second Chance Through Education
How I Learned to Read - and Trade Stocks - In Prison
College Behind Bars PBS Trailer
Why Correctional Education Matters
Why Invest in College in Prisons?
The Impact of Prison Education: A Short Documentary
How Education Gave this Former Prisoner a Second Chance
Cory Booker Tess the Truth About Our Prison System
He Who Opens a School Closes a Prison
Prison to School Pipeline: Education as Transformation
Imagining Possibilities: In Class with NYU's Prison Education Program
How These Inmates are Getting an Ivy League Education