Raise money for Education Justice Project
EJP is a vibrant community of incarcerated students, educators, formerly incarcerated individuals, and others who are committed to a more just and humane world. We believe that providing quality post-secondary education within prisons is an important step towards that vision.
Our Mission
The mission of the Education Justice project is to build a model college-in-prison program that demonstrates the positive impacts of higher education upon incarcerated people, their families, the neighborhoods from which they come, the host institution, and society as a whole.
What We Do
EJP is a comprehensive college-in-prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We offer programming in four main areas.
- We offer upper-division University of Illinois courses and extracurricular activities at Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison about 45 miles from the Urbana-Champaign campus. The learning community that EJP instructors and students continually recreate at the prison is at the core of everything else that EJP does, and drives our other activities.
- Through our Reentry Resource Program, we produce reentry guides and other reentry resources, and distribute them to incarcerated individuals, family members, and service agencies across the state and beyond.
- Our Policy & Research division engages state and campus policy related to our work and runs a research group.
- Prison to Gown Pathway supports students who have personal experience of incarceration.
In addition, EJP produces resources for other higher education in prison programs, hosts a scholarship program, engages the local community through RIPPLE Effect, and supports EJP members in producing critical scholarship about prison education, as well as creative works.
