Prison education

Teaching Psychology & Childhood Trauma In Prison | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Peter Medlin

On a new Teachers' Lounge, we talk to a professor about teaching people in prison about psychology and childhood trauma and why she's leading a new bachelor's degree program at Big Muddy Correctional Center.

Education

COVID Shut Down Most Prison Education Programs. Here's How Incarcerated Students Have Kept Learning

Over 10,000 people incarcerated in Illinois prisons have tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic -- that’s one out of every three people serving…

Education

'We Were Told That We Couldn't Do This': People In Illinois Prisons Helped Create Civics Ed Program

A few years ago, DePaul professor Dr. Christina Rivers started teaching a different kind of law and politics course.About half of the class is made up of…

Vicki White, president of Chicago Books to Women in Prison, reads a letter sent from an incarcerated woman to the organization, which donates books to women in prisons in Illinois and across the country.

Government

Illinois Prison System Spent Less Than $300 On Books Last Year

Lee V. Gaines

Every Sunday, a group of women meets in the basement of a church in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood to sort and package boxes of books. The boxes are...