Recent summit at MIT brought together educators, policymakers, and community partners, featuring resilience expert Shaka Senghor on transforming lives through learning and redefining pathways to freedom.

Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint MIT-Georgetown coding class, which takes place at the Correctional Treatment Facility, one of the two facilities that make up the DC jail complex.

Remote work has spread far and wide since the pandemic spurred a work-from-home revolution of sorts, but perhaps no place more unexpectedly than behind prison walls.

The Internal Action Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute for Educational Justice have joined forces to bring the Authenticity course to La Modelo prison in Bogotá, aimed at students from Harvard University, MIT, inmates, and the security and custody corps.

Our study discusses key design choices, needs, and recommendations for furthering computing curricula that foster self-efficacy and digital literacy in carceral settings.

Cambridge, MA — On Friday, September 27, The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at MIT, in collaboration with A24, The Just Trust, and LSC, hosted a powerful screening of the 2023 drama film "Sing Sing"—a film that highlights the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison.

A program called Brave Behind Bars brings computer science education to the D.C. jail