Colleges Must Take ‘Student-Centered Approach’ to Prison Education, Report Says

To maximize educational opportunities and career pathways for incarcerated individuals, colleges should partner with state leaders and correctional facilities to implement a student-centered approach to prison education, according to a joint report from The Educational Justice Institute at MIT and the New England Board of Higher Education. The report recommends college and state officials create transfer credit agreements to show which institutions guarantee they will accept prison credits post-release, as well as those earned before students were incarcerated. College leaders should also work with their state’s corrections commissioners to assess prison facilities and create a plan to most effectively use available space and resources for educational programming.