Our Programs.

The Justice-in-Education Initiative aims to make higher education available to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students and to contribute to the growing movement to end mass incarceration.

Justice-in-Education Scholars Program

Connecting extraordinary returning citizens with credit-bearing courses on Columbia’s main campus.

Rikers Education Program

Bringing unique educational and creative opportunities to people detained at Rikers Island.

Angela Davis and PEP alum

Prison Education Program

Delivering Columbia courses to students who are currently incarcerated in local prisons and jails.

Past Programs

Our past programs include The Confined Arts, Prison Education and Social Justice Pedagogy, and collaboration with the Media and Idea Lab of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.

“…these people truly helped my outlook on life.”

“We work as a team and it helped me stay out of trouble.”

Students

Rickers Education Program