May 2: John Peacock
Guest post by Joey McCarthy I would like to say that I felt honored to be able to hear John Peacock’s reading about his life, and how he came to find out his true heritage and roots. Like John Peacock,…
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Lecture: Dr. Ruth Toulson
Guest post by Donald Gross (R.I.P Douglas Scott Arey) Wow! This particular lecture had to be one of the most, if not the most informative lectures that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in. I would never have…
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Topics in the Humanities, Feb 16 2016
Guest post by Sean Almond in response to class visit by conceptual artist Hugh Pocock I enjoyed the presentation you gave here at JCI. Your work and thoughts really opened my eyes to new concepts of what art is, or…
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New Partnership with the University of Baltimore
Two months ago, the Attorney General Lorretta Lynch and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came to Jessup to announce a plan to offer Pell Grants to some prisoners again. They gave us until October 2nd to find a university…
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JCI Scholars in the Marshall Project
This excellent article by Beth Schartzapfel, Staff Writer at the Marshall Project, refers to the JCI Prison Scholars program, and includes quotes from scholars Josh Miller and Vincent Greco. Obama is Reinstalling Pell Grants for Prisoners
Congratulations!
Joshua Miller, one of our long-time instructors in the program, has been moving through the application process for the Open Society Institute – Baltimore Community Fellowships program (to support our work at JCI). Yesterday he received word that he has…
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City Paper Update
The City Paper feature article on the JCI Scholars Program got lots of attention and good press. And in this week’s issue is a letter from program scholar Doug Arey. Thanks again to Baynard Woods for the great article. Published:…
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Registration Event
Yesterday, we held the Program’s summer “registration fair.” I was joined by Rachel Donaldson and two new instructors, Mark Lindley and Henry Schwarz, along with almost one hundred and fifty incarcerated men who were potential students. Registration is something that…
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City Paper Feature Article
Our founder Drew Leder and one of our faculty, Mikita Brottman, are featured in a City Paper feature article this week! Congrats to them, and check out the article! (Though, to be fair, to get to our classrooms we actually…
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Monday Morning Statshot
Mr. Greco, the clerk to Ms. Schroeder, the JCI Librarian who organizes most of our logistics on the JCI side, has recently compiled some summary information on our program over the past few years, that I think is pretty impressive….
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