Media Coverage about our Program:
Jay Dedrick, “CU Denver Program Helps Incarcerated Learners Reach Milestone,” CU Connections, January 6, 2023, https://connections.cu.edu/spotlights/cu-denver-program-helps-incarcerated-learners-reach-milestone.
Jacob Carlock and Sean Mueller (two of our CU Students at Territorial), “Educating Incarcerated Individuals: An Easy Choice,” Westword, December 18, 2022, https://www.westword.com/news/prison-education-incarceration-commentary-15720107.
Carie Canterbury, “Beyond Prison Walls: Offenders at Colorado Territorial Correction Facility Celebrate Accomplishments with Graduation,” Cañon City Daily Record, December 16, 2022, https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2022/12/16/beyond-prison-walls-offenders-at-colorado-territorial-correction-facility-celebrate-accomplishments-with-graduation/.
Cathy Beuten, “Prison Ed Enables Former Inmates to Assimilate, Thrive in Society,” CU Regents website, October 6, 2022, https://www.cu.edu/regents/news/prison-ed-enables-former-inmates-assimilate-thrive-society.
Stephen J. Hartnett, “Higher Education will Give Prisoners a Second Chance,” Denver Post, March 3, 2022, https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/03/colorado-doc-incarceration-college-courses-cu-denver.
More General Information about Higher Education in Prison and Prison Arts and Activism
Accessing Pell Grants for College Programs in Correction Settings (New York City & Los Angeles: Vera Institute of Justice, 2023), www.vera.org.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).
Alliance for Higher Education in Prisons; see their documents library at https://www.higheredinprison.org/national-directory/document-library.
Beyond the Box, 2023 (Washington, D.C.: Department of Education, 2023), https://lincs.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/beyond-the-box.pdf.
“California’s Best Practices for Students Inside Prisons,” and other related materials posted by the Michelson 20MM Foundation’s Smart Justice Think Tank, https://20mm.org/?s=california%27s+best+practices.
Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Arts, Education, and Activist Alternatives. Hartnett, S. J., editor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration, by Daniel Karpowitz (2017).
College Inside, biweekly email newsletter + monthly print edition, published by the Open Campus group, Santa Cruz, CA, https://www.opencampusmedia.org/category/newsletters/college-inside.
Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).
Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach College in Prison, by Mneesha Gellman (2022).
Education for Liberation: The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America's Prisons, by Gerard Robinson and Elizabeth English Smith (2021).
“Educational Resource Equity” tab at the Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/topic/educational-resource-equity.
Equity and Excellence in Practice: A Guide for Higher Education in Prisons (Alliance for Higher Education in Prisons & the Prison University Project, 2019), https://www.higheredinprison.org/publications/equity-and-excellence-in-practice-report.
The Expanding Role of Colleges in Prison Education (Washington, D.C.: The Chronicle of Higher Education & Ascendium Group, 2021).
Federal Student Aid Fact Sheet, and other FAFSA information, available at https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa.
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall (2014).
Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison, by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (2017).
National Reentry Resource Center, Washington D.C., https://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org.
Pell is Not Enough; see the series of “Briefs” linked here (Salt Lake City: Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison, 2023), https://cherp.utah.edu/projects/pell_is_not_enough.php.
PCARE (the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective), “Fighting the Prison-Industrial Complex: A Call to Communication and Cultural Studies Scholars to Change the World,” Communication and Critical Cultural Studies 4 (2007): 402-420.
Prison Education Guide, by Christopher Zoukis (2016).
Proposed Best Interest of Students Metrics for Prison Higher Education (Salt Lake City: Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison, 2023), https://prisoneducationproject.utah.edu/research/upep_research_proposals/guidance_from_public_comments_april2023.pdf.
“Statement on Equity,” The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program, see the “Education” tab at https://www.aspeninstitute.org/issues/education.
Teaching on the Inside: A Survival Handbook for the New Prison Teacher, by Judith S. Myers and Patricia H. Walker (2016).
“Turning Silence into Speech and Action: Prison Activism and the Pedagogy of Empowered Citizenship,” Hartnett, S.J., and Jennifer K. Wood and Bryan McCann. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 8 (2011): 331-352.
Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Activism and Education. Hartnett, S. J., Wood, J. K., and E. Novek, editors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.