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Yale prison education program receives $1.5 million Mellon grant


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Since 2018, the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall (YPEI) has offered for-credit Yale courses to incarcerated individuals at Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. Drawing from existing Yale classes, and with the same academic standards and rigor of on-campus classes, the initiative offers a broad liberal arts curriculum, with courses ranging from “Visual Thinking” to “Introduction to Ethics” to “Readings in American Literature.”
Now YPEI, in partnership with the University of New Haven (UNH), will expand its educational offerings, giving its students the opportunity to earn college degrees for the first time.
The new partnership, which has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will allow incarcerated students in Connecticut to earn a two-year associate’s degree from UNH by taking courses in prison classrooms taught by both Yale and UNH faculty members and graduate students ....

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Yale prison education program receives $1.5 million Mellon grant


By Susan Gonzalez
April 15, 2021
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(Photo courtesy of Yale Prison Education Initiative.)
Since 2018, the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall (YPEI) has offered for-credit Yale courses to incarcerated individuals at Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. Drawing from existing Yale classes, and with the same academic standards and rigor of on-campus classes, the initiative offers a broad liberal arts curriculum, with courses ranging from “Visual Thinking” to “Introduction to Ethics” to “Readings in American Literature.”
Now YPEI, in partnership with the University of New Haven (UNH), will expand its educational offerings, giving its students the opportunity to earn college degrees for the first time. ....

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Lawsuit seeks to keep prisoners with mental illness out of Northern Correctional


Lawsuit seeks to keep prisoners with mental illness out of Northern Correctional
Claims solitary confinement and in-cell shackling amount to discrimination
A desk and a steel slab that would serve as a frame under a thin mattress at Northern Correctional Institution. The lawsuit alleges those incarcerated at the Somers prison spend up to 24 hours a day in their cells, confined to this space. The image is a still photo corrections officers took of an empty cell for a documentary about the prison, according to lawyers involved in the lawsuit.
Northern Correctional Institution’s use of solitary confinement and in-cell shackling amounts to discrimination against prisoners with mental illnesses, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday that seeks to end those practices. ....

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In confirmation hearing, nominated DOC chief says prison staff and oldest inmates will get COVID vaccines in February


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In confirmation hearing, nominated DOC chief says prison staff and oldest inmates will get COVID vaccines in February
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Angel Quiros poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at Cheshire Correctional Institution. “To me, the most important is housing and employment after the release,” he said about how he will lower the recidivism rate. “If you don’t have those two, the chance of the individual succeeding is going to be low.”
During what could end up being a pro-forma hearing on his path to being confirmed as the state’s next commissioner of the Department of Correction, Angel Quiros on Thursday announced that Department of Correction staff and the 27 incarcerated individuals who are age 75 or older will begin getting the COVID-19 vaccination on Feb. 1. ....

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