NPEP in the News
WBUR: After earning his bachelor's degree behind bars, formerly incarcerated man heads to law school
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The Daily Northwestern: Benard McKinley’s journey to civil rights law
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Chicago Magazine: Welcome to Northwestern University at Stateville
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Middle East Broadcasting Network: Northwestern Prison Education Program
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The Evanston Roundtable: Northwestern Prison Education Program grad marches through the arch
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ABC Chicago: Northwestern University prison education program graduate visits campus for 1st time
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The Daily Northwestern: Recent NPEP graduate Benard McKinley marches through The Arch after being freed from prison
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CBS Chicago: Chicago cousins freed after being wrongfully incarcerated for 42 years
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Chicago Tribune: ‘Home for the holidays’: Court vacates convictions for cousins in 1981 double homicide, Illinois’ longest-serving exonerees
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Chicago Sun-Times: Cousins who served longest wrongful conviction sentence in state history are exonerated after 42 years in prison
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ABC Chicago: Wrongful murder convictions vacated after 2 cousins serve 42 years in prison
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CNN: 2 cousins freed after spending 42 years wrongfully imprisoned
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Evanston Roundtable: Northwestern prison program grad exonerated after 42 years
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Fox Chicago: Chicago cousins wrongfully convicted for 1981 killings released from prison
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PBS News Weekend: Meet Northwestern University’s 1st class of incarcerated graduates
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Prison Journalism Project: First Class of Incarcerated Students Earn Degrees From Northwestern University
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NPR Illinois: How a prison education program is building community on the inside — and out
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Matter of Fact With Soledad O'Brien: Northwestern Prison Education Program Graduation
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Chicago Tribune: My students in prison have complex pasts but are now creating new stories
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WTTW: In History-Making Ceremony, Men in Prison Earn Degrees From Northwestern University
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Chicago Tribune: 16 men are the first incarcerated students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University through NPEP
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Evanston Roundtable: Stateville students make history with NU graduation
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Northwestern Now: NPEP students first incarcerated people to graduate from a top 10 university
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ABC News: Incarcerated students graduate from top ten university for first time in US history
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Reuters: In pictures: — US prisoners receive degrees from top university
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Stateville prison inmates receive diplomas from Northwestern University
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Reuters: For the first time, US prisoners graduate from top university
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The Daily Northwestern: Northwestern Prison Education Program celebrates inaugural commencement
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South Side Weekly: Incarcerated Northwestern Students Graduate
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The Guardian: Incarcerated students earn degrees in groundbreaking US university program
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Axios: Northwestern's Prison Education program graduating its first class
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The Daily Northwestern: NPEP hosts panel on rehabilitation and reentry for incarcerated people
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Northwestern Now: Ta-Nehisi Coates named Northwestern Prison Education Program commencement speaker
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WTTW: 53% of IDOC Inmates Serving Life Sentences Are Over Age 55. Advocates Call for Giving Some a Second Chance
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WBEZ: Formerly incarcerated students can now Zoom back into prison to finish their degrees
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Chicago Sun-Times: Chance to earn a college degree in prison benefits inmates — and society
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WBEZ: Northwestern University brings college to an Illinois women’s prison
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WTTW: Through Unique Program, Men in Prison Overcome Challenges to Earn Degrees from Northwestern University
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Evanston Roundtable: Northwestern prison program provides ‘priceless’ education
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Northwestern Now: Celebrating the community behind prison education program success
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The Daily Northwestern: Northwestern Prison Education Program establishes bachelor’s program to advance education for the incarcerated
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Northwestern Now: Keith LaMar addresses Northwestern community from solitary confinement on death row
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3Views on Theater: The Students from the Northwestern Prison Education Project
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The Daily Northwestern: Activists, authors share personal stories in prison abolition roundtable
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Northwestern Now: Northwestern Prison Education Program launches at Logan Correctional Center
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The 19th: Illinois women’s prison offers a new chance at a degree
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Northwestern Now: Twenty incarcerated students are the first in the U.S. to be enrolled in a top 10 university
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The Daily Northwestern: NU prison education programs host weekend of events with Justice for Keith LaMar campaign
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The Daily Northwestern: NU profs. and criminal justice researcher discuss juvenile justice reform at NPEP roundtable
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WBEZ: Northwestern To Expand Its Prison Education Program With $1M Boost
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Chicago Tribune: Long imprisoned, man wins early release amid pandemic, but efforts to clear his name continue
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Chicago Tribune: ‘Stateville Voices’ goes ahead with virtual Goodman premiere Friday
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The Daily Northwestern: Northwestern Prison Education Program hosts ‘Stateville Calling’ screening and Q&A
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The Washington Post: The measure of a country is how it treats its prisoners. The U.S. is failing.
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Northwestern Now: Liberal arts behind bars
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