Education
Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Many people in state prisons grew up facing serious family, housing, economic, and educational challenges (Created: 2022)
- Educational attainment among people entering state prisons is low, especially among Black and Hispanic people (Created: 2022)
- Educational attainment among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade ELA scores (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade math scores (Created: 2020)
- Without federal aid, the rate of college course participation in prisons dropped by half (Created: 2019)
- It's getting harder for formerly incarcerated people to compete in an increasingly skilled labor market (Created: 2018)
- Educational exclusion raises unemployment rates of formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- From high school to college graduate: General public and formerly incarcerated (Created: 2018)
- Formerly incarcerated people of color face the greatest educational disadvantages (Created: 2018)
- People in prison are disproportionately illiterate (Created: 2016)
- Salaries for California teachers and correctional officers, 1996 (Created: 2003)
- Complete illiteracy in the prisoner and general populations (Created: 2003)
- Ohio's corrections budget grew faster than education budget, 1985-2000 (Created: 2003)
- Increases in the African American population in prison and in higher education, 1980-2000 (Created: 2003)
- African American male population in higher education and in prison, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- Educational attainment: General public and formerly incarcerated (Created: 1969)
Events
- June 7, 2024:
Research Director Wendy Sawyer will take part in a panel discussion during the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. The panel, Incarceration as a public health threat, will focus on the ways mass incarceration harms the health of not only incarcerated people but their communities as well.
Communication Director Mike Wessler will also be in attendance for journalists who want to connect.
If you’re a journalist who would like to meet with either, please send us a message.
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