Providing opportunities for education and leadership development to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women.
Integrating the study of justice more fully into the Columbia curriculum.
Changing public and political thinking about the importance of access to higher education for the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated.
The Justice-in-Education Initiative is dedicated to bringing credit-bearing college courses and other educational programs to people and communities affected by our broken justice system, and to engaging the Columbia community in the movement to end mass incarceration.