Misrepresented Research Threatens Hard-Won Progress in Higher Education in Prison
Education Justice Project (EJP) leadership feels compelled to address the damaging misrepresentation of research in the recent Inside Higher Ed (IHE) article, “Prison Education May Raise Risk of Reincarceration for Technical Violations.” EJP, a unit of the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has for eighteen years successfully hosted a college-in-prison program…