Join us April 5th at noon ET for part I: Education over Incarceration.

We are in a state of mass incarceration in the United States, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Roughly 70 million Americans — almost one-third of the working population — have a criminal record. Around 25% of formerly incarcerated people do not have a high-school diploma or equivalent graduation certificate. Knowing how transformational education can be, Dr. Stanley Andrisse, started From Prison Cells to PhD, a nonprofit organization that currently works with 100 formerly incarcerated people each year. P2P provide resources, tools, support, mentoring and internships to help them to pursue their academic goals. They also continue to push academic institutions to ‘ban the box.’ Their efforts helped to remove the criminal-history section from the Common Application, which is used by most US universities.

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