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These three videos highlight TEJI’s Philosophical Life Skills program, TEJI’s Brave Behind Bars web design program, and some reflections from Co-Director Lee Perlman and Senior Graduate Fellow Marisa Gaetz.
A short documentary featuring MIT’s prison education program received an Emmy Award from the New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at its virtual award ceremony on June 20. Produced by WGBH, the film bested five other nominees in the Education/Schools category.
Read MoreVivian Nixon was a key voice in the Education Department’s decision in 2015 to reinstate Pell Grants for a limited number of incarcerated students. On Monday, the executive director of the College and Community Fellowship exhorted lawmakers to take what criminal justice reformers view as the next step: lifting the 1994 ban on federal student aid in prisons.
Read MoreTogether, the inmates and college students are learning how to turn a small image that Deshowitz and her peers designed into a massive two-story mural. It's a course to teach the group about scenic painting — and a little bit about collaboration along the way.
Read MorePrison changed Jose Bou’s life in a way he never expected. While serving a 12-year sentence for drug trafficking, Bou earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston University through a special program for incarcerated students. Since his release seven years ago, Bou has become a community college professor and a mentor to others caught up in the correctional system.
Read MoreA multi-university consortium will look to transform the lives of incarcerated people through education.
The MIT Educational Justice Institute will lead a consortium to support expanding access to postsecondary education to people currently and formerly in prison statewide, fueled by a grant by the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other member schools include Boston University, Emerson College, Mt. Wachusett Community College, and Tufts University.
Read MoreThis article by The Tech describes a recent academic debate between the MIT Debate Team and the Norfolk Debating Society, sponsored and organized by TEJI. The debate centered around the following resolution: “pharmaceutical companies should be held criminally responsible for their role as contributors to America’s current opioid crisis.”
Read MoreIn 1987, while teaching a class at MIT on nonviolence, philosophy lecturer Lee Perlman had a novel idea: Why not take the students to a prison, to talk with men who had committed extreme forms of violence?
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