Incarcerated students

In September, the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs (MORCA)-Georgetown Paralegal Program awarded Paralegal Studies certificates to 13 Fellows, with keynote remarks from CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative has added a digital literacy program at the DC Jail in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is providing a path to a…

A graduate of the MORCA-Georgetown Paralegal Program shares how the program helps formerly incarcerated students prepare for the legal profession.

Georgetown recognized the accomplishments and perseverance of 16 fellows graduating from its Pivot Program, which prepares formerly incarcerated students for entrepreneurship or employment through training in business fundamentals, liberal arts,…

Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative collaborated with the Career Development team at the McCourt School of Public Policy to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for a successful job search in the…

Preparing for a dramatic expansion in the number of incarcerated students eligible for Pell Grants, the U.S. Department of Education has released new regulations to guide higher education institutions offering…

Adnan Syed, a student in Georgetown University’s Prison Scholars Program at the Patuxent Institution and the subject of the 2014 podcast “Serial,” was released from prison this week.

A new introductory computer science program run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology is further expanding the educational opportunities available to students at the D.C. Jail, where Georgetown University’s Prison Scholars…

Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative recently launched in-person classes for the very first cohort of its bachelor’s degree program at a Maryland prison.

With expanded Pell Grant eligibility on the horizon, a new report considers what else is needed to improve college access and success for justice-impacted students.