[Peace] TODAY, 12Noon / "Education Justice: The Promise of College-in-Prison Programs"

[Karen Medina]

"Education Justice: The Promise of College-in-Prison Programs"
REBECCA GINSBURG
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Director, Education Justice Project

Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 Noon - 1:15 p.m.
1201 West Nevada Street, Urbana

Many African American children have a better chance of going to prison
than to college.  Most people incarcerated in Illinois will return to
prison within three years of their release.  Rebecca Ginsburg,
Director of the Education Justice Project, will discuss how prison
education programs work to break the cycle of incarceration, describe
EJP's efforts at Danville Correctional Center, and explain why
providing education to incarcerated people is a matter of educational
justice.

(The Education Justice Project (EJP) operates an education program at
Danville Correctional Center, a men's medium-high security prison
about thirty-five miles from the Urbana-Champaign campus.  Offerings
include a speakers series (funded in 2009-2010 by the Illinois
Humanities Council), writing workshops, reading groups, and for-credit
upper-division classes.  This fall, EJP will begin its fifth semester
of programs at the prison, where about 80 men are expected to
participate in the various offerings.)

Please join us!




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Shirley Olson
Department of African American Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1201 West Nevada Street    MC-143
Urbana, Illinois  61801

PH: (217) 333-7781
FAX:  (217) 244-4809
EMAIL:  sla at illinois.edu