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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.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’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. 

On February 4, 2023, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ's Prison Education Initiative (PEI) held its first college graduation inside Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, NY.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’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.
 

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

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

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation has awarded 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ a $10,000 grant to support the Incarceration in America think tank that will be held October 1-2, 2021.

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

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

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ has received accreditation from the New England Commissions of Higher Education (NECHE) to award a 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ Associate of Art degree to incarcerated students through its (PEI).

Since its launch in 2015, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’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.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’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 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ 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 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ in 2015 will enroll 29 prisoners at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, in classes this spring.