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The Northwestern Insider — Issue 1

The Northwestern Insider is, for many Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) students, a long time coming. Inspired by other publications they’ve contributed to, the Northwestern Insider aims to be a place where NPEP students can write personal essays, poems, critiques, reviews, fiction, and more. The intention is to publish the Northwestern Insider on a quarterly

’Every Lawyer Needs This Experience’: How Professor Sheila Bedi Bridges the Criminal Legal System Through Teaching

Sheila A. Bedi is a clinical professor of law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic, a law school clinic that provides students with the opportunities to work within social justice movements on legal and policy strategies aimed at redressing over-policing and mass imprisonment.  Bedi

GSAC Spotlight: Gerpha Gerlin on NPEP’s Wellness Initiatives

Gerpha Gerlin is a graduate student at Northwestern University, currently seeking her doctorate in anthropology and her master’s degree in public health. She expects to graduate in 2026. One of the reasons Gerlin chose Northwestern is because of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, where she is a member of the program’s wellness team. “I’ve in

A Journey to Justice: Pondering 42 Years of Wrongful Incarceration With James Soto

Story by Anthony Ehlers; Photos by Monika Wnuk Anthony Ehlers is a Communications Fellow for the Northwestern Prison Education Program and a recent graduate with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Northwestern University. Before James Soto was released from Stateville Correctional Center, Anthony interviewed him to talk about his experience as the longest-serving wrongfully convicted

Ta-Nehisi Coates named Northwestern Prison Education Program commencement speaker

The author and journalist will address the first incarcerated students to receive bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university Award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will deliver the commencement address for the Northwestern Prison Education Program. This graduation marks the first time incarcerated students in the United States will be conferred a bachelor’s degree from

I Left Death Row. But Death Row Didn’t Leave Me.

Anthony Ehlers is a Communications Fellow for the Northwestern Prison Education Program and a recent graduate with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Northwestern University. In 2002, Anthony’s sentence was commuted from the death penalty to life in prison. He is currently incarcerated at Sheridan Correctional Center. He wrote the following essay to commemorate World

NPEP Summer 2023 Newsletter

The following is an excerpt from NPEP’s Summer 2023 newsletter. You can read the full newsletter here.  Dear NPEP community, Welcome to the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) newsletter! Since celebrating our first and second cohorts as they graduated with their associate degrees from Oakton College last year at Stateville Correctional Center, we’ve welcomed 45