February 2023 Connections

This issue of Connections highlights the increasing number of programs offered by Jesuit colleges and universities for incarcerated individuals. It’s timely that as our schools increase their programs for this […]

“Due to a multitude of poor life choices, at the age of twenty-five, I was arrested and incarcerated … Taking full responsibility for my life and holding myself accountable to […]

Growing up, Dorain Grogan never pictured himself as a college student. Now, he’s in the classroom four days a week, reading Plato and Frederick Douglass and working toward a bachelor’s […]

I often call to mind Jesus’ “Parable of the Farmer Scattering Seed” when I think about teaching theology as a professor at The University of Scranton. To me, the story […]

While Matt DelSesto ’12 was studying human development and philosophy at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, he participated in the University’s popular PULSE program, which combines […]

In 2017, Craig Watz, J.D., was an adjunct faculty member in criminal justice when he heard the initial presentation about a plan to provide college courses to staff and incarcerated […]

For nearly 15 years, the Saint Louis University (SLU) Prison Education Program has contributed to creating a world where everyone has access to quality and sustainable higher educational opportunities regardless […]

In one of the great ironies of his life, Arlando “Tray” Jones, III experienced a kind of liberation while living behind bars and barbed wire. Confined to the Maryland State […]

This issue of Connections elevates several meaningful programs at Jesuit colleges and universities that educate incarcerated students. AJCU institutions pursue these programs in the context of our mission and the […]