Educating Felons: Reflections on Higher Education in Prison

Radical History Review

Volumn 2006, Issue 96, 2006, Pages 87-94

  McCarty, Heather Jane ^a  

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EID: 85131859447     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2006-005     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. Bruce Wolford and John Littlefield, “Correctional Post-secondary Education: The Expanding Role of Community Colleges,” Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice 9 (1985): 257 – 72; Ellen B. Emmert, Offender Assistance Programs Operated by Postsecondary Institutions of Education, 1975 – 1976 (Washington, DC: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, 1976); James Stephan, Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1990 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1992), quoted in Joshua Page, “Eliminating the Enemy: The Import of Denying Prisoners Access to Higher Education in Clinton’s America,” Punishment and Society 6 (2004): 357 – 78.
2. United States Department of Education, Request for 1993 – 1994 Federal Pell Grant Data: Received Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1994).
3. Richard Tewksbury, David J. Erickson, and Jon Marc Taylor, “Opportunities Lost: The Consequences of Eliminating Pell Grant Eligibility for Correctional Education Students,” Journal of Offender Education 31 (2000): 43 – 56.
4. Richard Tewksbury and Jon Marc Taylor, “Eligibility for Students in Post-secondary Correctional Education Programs,” Federal Probation 60 (1996): 60 – 63; Tewksbury, Erickson, and Taylor, “Opportunities Lost.”
5. See Page, “Eliminating the Enemy,” for a thorough discussion of why Congress passed legislation in 1994 that denied Pell Grants to prisoners despite evidence that higher education in prisons helps with carceral control and reduced recidivism.
6. See www.prisonuniversityproject.org (accessed April 5, 2006) for more information on the Prison University Project and the college program at San Quentin.