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Objectives
We are dedicated to education both in prison classrooms and on the university campus.
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Our instructors teach courses to incarcerated students in state prisons in Central and Western New York.
News & Events
Guest lectures, workshops, and film screenings educate the university community about mass incarceration.
In the News
University prison education initiative awarded major grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
16 inmates earn college degrees at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus
Rochester’s prison education program aims to transform lives of inmates, undergraduates
Author Forman talks transforming the criminal system
New York state prisoners to get free tablets for education
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