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On May 17 and 18, Bennington's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) gathered together a small group to engage in conversation around access and opportunities to higher education for people serving life or virtual life sentences in America.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty and staff offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

This grant was made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities Supports Outstanding Publicly Engaged Humanities Programs.

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation has awarded 51�������� a $10,000 grant to support the Incarceration in America think tank that will be held October 1-2, 2021.

51�������� has received accreditation from the New England Commissions of Higher Education (NECHE) to award a 51�������� Associate of Art degree to incarcerated students through its (PEI).

Since its launch in 2015, 51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), a program of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) founded by faculty members David Bond and Annabel Davis-Goff, has worked to bring liberal arts programming to the maximum-security men’s prison Great Meadow in Comstock, NY.

51��������’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) hosted a conference on The Future of Higher Education in Prison on April 28-29, the ninth convening that forms part of the College’s , a project established formally in 2014 to address the fact that the U.S. prison population has increased 400% in the past forty years.

The Department of Education announced today that 51�������� was among the colleges and universities selected from a competitive national pool to participate in the Second Chance Pell pilot program.

Now in its second term, the Prison Education Initiative launched by 51�������� in 2015 will enroll 29 prisoners at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, in classes this spring.

On February 4, 2023, 51��������'s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) held its first college graduation inside Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, NY.

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from the Ford Foundation.

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a grant of $60,000 from the .

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a grant of $40,000 from the .

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the to continue and expand a program bringing quality liberal arts education to incarcerated students at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security men’s prison in Comstock, NY.
 

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), which serves Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security men’s prison in Comstock, NY, is poised to become in New York State to offer incarcerated people the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree. 

Terrance C. '23 is one of ten students who received an associate’s degree as a part of 51��������’s first Prison Education Initiative graduation on February 4, 2023. This is his reflection essay.

From narrative nonfiction at Bennington to a founding staff writer at , Jeva Lange ’15 is telling the stories of our climate change-rattled world in ways that finally grab readers’ attention.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty, staff, and students offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

51��������'s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has partnered with fellow members of The New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison (NY-CHEP) to provide protective face masks for all incarcerated individuals in New York State.

Following about Bennington’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), the Glens Falls Post-Star published calling the program “a model for inmate education.” The editorial cited US incarceration rates and argued “We cannot afford to write off that many people.”

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

Exploring alternatives to incarceration, by Alex Dery Snider