Thursday, August 6, 2015
Ford Foundation Awards $1 Million to Help Prisoners Get a College Education
$1 million over two years to the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides incarcerated students with opportunities to do course work with Bard professors and get help when reentering society. The grant will allow the program, which is home to the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, to continue expanding and spreading nationally, and to conduct advocacy work on the best ways to help people after they leave prison....