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Download full textJohn Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2022
In 2019, the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute) launched a training program to prepare people with lived experience in the criminal legal system for employment and promotions in human services. The Institute believes that workforce and leadership development for people with lived experience in New York City's…
Descriptors: Certification, Human Services, Justice, Career Pathways
Donaldson, Vernisa M.; Viera, Christopher – John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2021
The white paper synthesizes existing literature around higher education for formerly incarcerated individuals and describes the need for more work in this area. More than 650,000 individuals are released from state and federal prisons and return to the community each year. However, most programming and research have been concentrated on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Reentry Students
John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2021
New York has been a leader in education in prison since the 1800s. At its peak in the 1990s, when incarcerated people were eligible for federal Pell and New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants, New York had 70 higher education programs operating in state prisons. In the mid-1990s, when legislators revoked Pell and TAP for…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Colleges, Partnerships in Education, Correctional Education
John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2020
The New York State Back to School Guide is written for people who wish to pursue a college education in New York State after their release from incarceration. Its core purpose is to help readers develop a thoughtful and practical academic reentry plan to advance personal and professional goals. Additionally, this resource will be useful to…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Reentry Students, Adult Students
John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2020
This resource guide is intended for people seeking assistance pursuing college in the community after incarceration. It identifies resources in New York City, as well as the four upstate metropolitan areas to which most people return: Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. This resource also identifies the Re-entry Task Forces in the twenty…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Access to Education, Higher Education, Counseling Services
