HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Education
Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Educational attainment among people entering state prisons is low, especially among Black and Hispanic people (Created: 2022)
- Many people in state prisons grew up facing serious family, housing, economic, and educational challenges (Created: 2022)
- Educational attainment among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade math scores (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade ELA scores (Created: 2020)
- Without federal aid, the rate of college course participation in prisons dropped by half (Created: 2019)
- Educational exclusion raises unemployment rates of formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- Formerly incarcerated people of color face the greatest educational disadvantages (Created: 2018)
- From high school to college graduate: General public and formerly incarcerated (Created: 2018)
- It's getting harder for formerly incarcerated people to compete in an increasingly skilled labor market (Created: 2018)
- People in prison are disproportionately illiterate (Created: 2016)
- Salaries for California teachers and correctional officers, 1996 (Created: 2003)
- Complete illiteracy in the prisoner and general populations (Created: 2003)
- Ohio's corrections budget grew faster than education budget, 1985-2000 (Created: 2003)
- Increases in the African American population in prison and in higher education, 1980-2000 (Created: 2003)
- African American male population in higher education and in prison, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- Educational attainment: General public and formerly incarcerated (Created: 1969)
