- ‘A story to tell’: WashU Prison Education Project expands to women’s correctional center
- Earning a degree behind bars: WU Prison Education Project changes lives
- Challenges conquered: Students in the Prison Education Project learn computer science the WashU way
- Washington U. grad vows to create second chances for other ex-prisoners
- Wash U Prison Education Project Celebrates First Grads, Program Expansion
- Prison Education Project wins Mellon Foundation grant
- It looks like any other graduation – except these graduates earned their degrees in prison
- 10 Missouri Inmates Receive Associate Degrees From University
- Washington University graduates its first class of students in prison
- ‘Education is transformative’: Washington University Prison Education Project presents first Commencement
- For Some Inmates, Rehabilitation Includes a College Degree
- 10 inmates earn degrees, graduate in Missouri prison
- 10 inmates make history as first to graduate from school’s prison education program
Updates from PEP
PEP Hosts 2023 Maggie Garb Memorial Lecture
On March 27th, PEP was proud to host the 2023 Maggie Garb Memorial Lecture, “Working at the Intersection of Art, Activism, and Anti-Carcerality,” a discussion featuring playwright, trauma-informed journalist, and activist Sarah Shourd alongside Shubra Ohri, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center. The discussion was moderated by PEP Director Kevin Windhauser. The wide-ranging discussion […]
PEP Expands Financial Literacy Workshops
Thanks to the generous support of the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis in 2022, the Prison Education Project completed a series of reentry workshops on a variety of topics, from technology and digital literacy to health literacy. In 2023, PEP has been able to expand the reach of these workshops by partnering with Criminal Justice […]
2022 Year-End Roundup
PEP has had a big year in 2022!! From the launch of our second degree program at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia, MO to our celebration of 18 new PEP graduates at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, it’s been a full and exciting year. Here are some of our most […]
Higher Education as Reentry: PEP Hosts Panel at Missouri Reentry Conference
On November 3rd, as a part of the Missouri Reentry Conference, Washington University’s Prison Education Project co-hosted a panel on higher education as a form of reentry programming with St. Louis University’s Prison Education Program. The conversation featured Kevin Windhauser, WashU PEP’s Program Director, Jim Brock, WashU PEP’s Alumni Coordinator, Julie O’Heir, SLU PEP’s Program […]
PEP Attends and Presents at 2022 STEM-OPS Annual Convening
In late October, the Washington University in St. Louis Prison Education Project team attended the first STEM-OPS Annual Convening, a conference for stakeholders dedicated to expanding access to STEM education and careers for people impacted by incarceration. STEM-OPS, or STEM Opportunities in Prison Settings, is an alliance of partnered organizations guided by the vision that […]