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News December 17, 2020
How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator
His administration has funneled $30 million to Ashland University in Ohio. Critics say the school’s tablet-based program fails incarcerated students.
By Eli Hager
Life Inside April 5, 2018
Finding College by Way of Prison
“Taking classes helped me forget that I wasn’t free.”
By Marcus Lilly, as told to Nicole Lewis
Inmates at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland listened as then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced in 2015 that his department would begin a pilot program to give prisoners access to Pell grants.
News March 28, 2018
The Uncertain Fate of College in Prison
Obama revived Pell grants for prisoners, but the program faces a cloudy future.
By Nicole Lewis
Carolyn Jordan-Daniels at her home in Highland, Calif. Her great-uncle, Nelson Nash, was murdered by a mob in Louisiana after being wrongly arrested.
Feature January 3, 2017
Getting Away With Murder
Researching lynching cold cases, law students restore history.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Family and friends of Armando Villa during a rally Wednesday, July 9, 2014, to call for an end to fraternity hazing at Cal State Northridge, in Northridge, California. A school investigation found that Villa, a student at CSUN, died in a hazing incident while on a hike with a fraternity.
News August 21, 2016
Does College Hazing Defy the Laws It Spawned?
Many states bar dangerous rituals, but little seems to change.
By Josiah Bates
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