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Rochester Review, Winter 2022
To men and women incarcerated in western New York, a University-affiliated program offers higher education and a bridge to the outside world.
Rochester’s college-in-prison program expands to become western New York’s prison education hub
Wed, 08 Sep 2021
This year, the University’s prison education program starts courses at Attica, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the prison uprising.
Continue ReadingUniversity prison education initiative awarded major grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Fri, 12 Jun 2020
The University's cornerstone prison education initiative receives a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand and further develop its programming.
Continue ReadingRochester’s prison education program aims to transform lives of inmates, undergraduates
Tue, 10 May 2016
Rochester will join forces with the Cornell Prison Education Program next year, as assistant professor of religion Joshua Dubler and his students bring the value of a higher education to an often invisible population while addressing the epidemic of mass incarceration.
Continue ReadingJoshua Dubler awarded Carnegie Fellowship to explore prison abolition
Wed, 20 Apr 2016
Joshua Dubler, assistant professor of religion, will spend the next two years pursuing the question of whether the prison itself is a necessary component of modern society.
Continue ReadingRochester professor awarded research fellowship to study impact of religion on mass incarceration
Fri, 27 Feb 2015
Joshua Dubler's project will shed new light on how changes in the religious landscape in America have contributed to tremendous growth in the prison system over the last 40 years.
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