From the Classroom to the Community: Exploring the Role of Education During Incarceration and Reentry

摘要

Recognizing the pressing need to explore the issues surrounding education, incarceration, and reentry, the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Urban Institute hosted the Reentry Roundtable on Education on March 31 and April 1, 2008, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The two-day meeting examined the current state of education during incarceration and reentry and identified promising programmatic and policy directions. Twenty-nine individuals participated in the Roundtable, along with more than 100 observers. As a starting point for the discussion, seven papers were commissioned on various topics related to the intersection of education, incarceration, and reentry. A list of the papers and the meeting participants can be found in the text boxes on pages 4 and 5. The Roundtable also benefited from the input of several incarcerated students with whom the papers were shared before the event. The students provided comments, suggestions for discussion, and questions that were shared with the Roundtable participants during the sessions. Comments from the incarcerated students as well as the Roundtable attendees are included throughout this monograph.