The Importance of Education during Incarceration

The Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation (ACSF) recently released A Story to Tell: The Importance of Education during Incarceration as Told by 22 Men and Women Who Know Firsthand, a collection of essays written by individuals with criminal convictions whose lives were significantly improved by educational opportunities available to them during incarceration. 

The Petey Greene Program’s Lynne Sullivan, Regional Manager of PGP Massachusetts, authored essay #6, titled “She would say each time I came out of solitary confinement, ‘You done yet?” The collection was edited by PGP National Advisory Board Member Gerard Robinson, VP for Education at ACSF.

“Each author shares real-world examples of such themes as tragedy, triumph, hope, love, violence, or forgiveness,” said Robinson. “They articulate the unique role that participation in an education program during incarceration—and the teachers, administrators, counselors, and case workers who manage it—played in her or his reinvention process, be it inside or beyond the walls of a prison or jail.”