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After nearly 30 years of incarceration, Joel Castón is home. A mentor, advocate, advisory neighborhood commissioner, and former member of Georgetown’s Prison Scholars Program (PSP), Castón was released from the D.C. Jail on parole on Nov. 22.
A still-incarcerated convicted murderer made history in the nation’s capital when voters recently elected him to one of the District of Columbia’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, which advise the local government on neighborhood issues such as police protection, parking, zoning, liquor licenses, and trash collection. Joel Caston, 44, has been imprisoned for 26 years after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the Aug. 14, 1994, ambush slaying of Rafiq Washington, 18. He is expected to be released from the D.C. Central Detention Facility either this or next year. Getting elect...
Incarcerated students [instagram] Georgetown University has announced a new program that will allow Maryland prison inmates to earn a bachelor’s degree as part of the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI). The PJI will lead the program and will select its first 25 students for the five-year program this fall. According to CNN, by the program’s end, at least 125 inmates in the state prison system will have earned degrees from Georgetown. The private university and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) signed a memorandum of understanding last ...
Maryland inmates can now earn a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University Georgetown University has announced a new program that will allow some Maryland prison inmates to earn bachelor’s degrees. The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will lead the five-year program. It will choose its first 25 students in the fall 2021 semester. By the program’s end, at least 125 inmates within the Maryland prison system will have earned bachelor’s degrees from the private university in Washington. “There is a great deal of research showing that prison education reduces costs, make...
By Cherranda Smith Apr 9, 2021 Georgetown University will offer bachelor’s degrees to about 25 people currently incarcerated in a Maryland prison. According to a report by The Hill, the university is building upon its Prison Scholars Program after receiving a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since the program was started in 2018 in response to incarceration and recidivism, more than 150 students at the Washington, D.C. prison have taken no-credit classes.The three-year grant will permit the students in the program to start earning credits towards a degree. Studen...