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Resources

For more information about prisoner re-entry, prison education in New York State, and efforts nationally in this field:

SUNY Resources

• SUNY Road Map To Starting A College-In-Prison (CIP) Program
• Re-Entry: Steps your campus can take to support justice-involved students
• Access, Success, and Challenges in College-In-Prison Programs within The State University of New York
• Fall 2021 HEJI Student Welcome Packet
• HEJI Cultivating Relationships & Building Support: A Guide to College-in-Prison Program Sustainability
• HEJI Prison Education Faculty Recruitment Guide
• SUNY Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC)
• Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• SUNY Ban the Box Resolution
• How college-in-prison changes lives and communities
• SUNY’s Vision of Educational Equity for Incarcerated New Yorkers
• Black Male Initiative Empire State College
• New York State College-in-Prison Program Planning Guide: an inventory of program practices and student supports

CUNY Resources

• Getting the Record Straight: A Guide to Navigating Background Checks
• Getting to Work with a Criminal Record: New York State License Guides
• The John Jay Institute for Justice and Opportunity
• Mapping the City University of New York: The University’s Commitment to Students
• Impacted the Criminal Legal System
• Mapping the Landscape of Higher Education in New York State Prisons
• New York State Back to School Guide: Pursuing College after Incarceration
• Reflections on Building a Partnership with Corrections: A Resource Guide for College-in-Prison Programs
• Resource Guide: Reentry and College Access Organizations
• Supports for Students with Conviction Records

Resources for Re-Entry

• College and Community Fellowship
• Exodus Transitional Services
• Fortune Society
• Ladies of Hope House Ministries and Hope House
• Hour Children
• M.A.D.E. Transitional Services
• Women’s Prison Association
• Osborne Association
• Reentry Columbia County
• DCJS Country Reentry Taskforces
• Houghton College Buffalo Hope House
• Capital Region Connections
• College Initiative Upstate

New York Higher Education in Prison Organizations and Resources

• New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison (NY-CHEP)
• New Directions at Mohawk Valley Community College
• Cornell Prison Education Program
• Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison
• Bard Prison Initiative
• Marymount Manhattan Bedford Hills College Program
• NYU Prison Education Program
• Columbia Center for Justice
• Rochester Education Justice Initiative (REJI) at University of Rochester
• American Prison Writing Archive at Hamilton College
• NYS Association of Incarcerated Education Programs, Inc. (NYSAIEP)
• New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)
• Criminal Justice Investment Initiative (DANY CJII)
• An Open Letter to Our Friends on the Question of Language
• Center for Law and Justice

National Higher Education in Prison Organizations and Resources

• Alliance for Higher Education in Prison
• Vera Institute of Justice
• Unlock HigherEd
• Second Chance Educational Alliance
• Formerly Incarcerated Graduate Network
• Jamii Sisterhood
• Mount Tamalpais College
• Education Justice Project
• From Prison Cells to PhD
• The Appeal
• Critical Education