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
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
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
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
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 imprisoned at Stateville Correctional Center. He wrote the following essay to commemorate World
Ahead of the launch of her collection of poetry, “42 and Freedom,” at The Sweden Shop in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood on August 27, NPEP Logan student Erika Ray shared more about the ideas behind the collection and how it came about. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Tell us about “42
In the fall of 2022, Professor Mary Pattillo taught a course for Cohort 1 at Stateville on qualitative research methods, and each student was required to write an interview guide. One student, Tony Triplett, wrote a guide to interview Pattillo, to which she happily obliged. In her responses to Triplett’s questions — found below —
Students will now have digital access to Northwestern libraries and the ability to type class assignments. For the first time, students in the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) at Stateville Correctional Center have access to laptop computers for use in their academic work — a significant stride forward for the program that aims to harness
