College Inside
By Charlotte West
issues
Ban the box, not the books
There’s a lot related to writing and reading in this issue of College Inside. I’ve had the opportunity to work with several incarcerated writers, including a collaboration with Ryan Moser on the first of several stories about surprising barriers to Pell Grant…
The pendulum effect
After spending a month in Colorado for the holidays, I came back home to a mailbox filled with letters from all over the country. People have shared not only stories about the transformational power of education, but also their frustrations of being shut out …
Misconceptions, rules, and the power of self-discovery
Even before I started covering college programs in prisons, one of my favorite podcasts was Ear Hustle, which focuses on life inside San Quentin State Prison in the Bay Area. When I found out that Nigel Poor, one of the co-producers of Ear Hustle first got in…
A critical juncture
For most of my journalism career, I’ve been a freelancer focused on education, and I never imagined that I’d end up exclusively dedicated to covering prison education. I’ve previously written about juvenile justice for publications such as The Appeal, but I h…