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Beautiful. Another reason to visit this excellent bookstore! #NHV
ICYMI for this app: the infinitely talented @jessxsnow and team complete a @rwgilmoregirls mural in New Haven!
ALT Side of a building with a painted mural of Ruth Wilson Gilmore smiling against the brick looking to the side, with a yellow circle behind her head. Wildflowers sprout from the base of the painting and a yellow painted bird is flying. A group of painters hold onto the green ladder machine as they smile for the photo.
More of this! Bringing college to incarcerated folks benefits everyone.
Earning a degree, and a sense of freedom.
For the very first time, incarcerated students enrolled with the Yale Prison Education Initiative and @UNewHaven graduated with associate degrees.
Learn more: bit.ly/3CTwMvE #Yale @YPEIdwighthall
📷: Karen Pearson
ALT Photo of graduates Maurice Blackwell and Marcus Harvin embracing during the June 9 ceremony. Photo by Karen Pearson
ALT Photo of Alpha Jalloh, one of the graduates of an associate degree program run by the Yale Prison Education Initiative and the University of New Haven, receiving his degree during a ceremony June 9. Photo by Karen Pearson
ALT Photo of several members of the Yale faculty wearing caps and gowns who have taught in the YPEI program took part in the commencement. Photo by Karen Pearson
ALT Photo of graduates, including Evan Holmes, wearing their caps and gowns during the ceremony. Photo by Karen Pearson
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#UNewHaven and @YPEIdwighthall celebrated the program's inaugural college graduation inside the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. (via @AP) bit.ly/43Uj9rr
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In late March, David Gianforte made an appointment to talk about three bills with Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, who happens to be his father. David told his father the bills will harm the LGBTQ+ community he’s a part of. #mtnews montanafreepress.org/2023/04…
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As Pell Grant restoration for people in prison is slated to go into effect, this piece by the incarcerated editor of The Nash News offers his reflections on higher education. bit.ly/3DRnWOZ
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The discovery of the earliest film produced by a Black film company is a fun archival detective story, a case of hiding in plain sight. Great work by @Allyson_Nadia and @CaraCaddoo! blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2…
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What's the connection between information literacy and vaccine hesitancy? Probably not what you think. Our new paper interviews vaccine hesitant people to challenge the idea that information literacy will simply 'fix' stigmatised activity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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THREAD. Today researchers announced the most comprehensive study ever on a bail reform. They studied over 500,000 misdemeanor cases and found that reducing the use of money bail in Houston led to big decreases in jailing and likely *decreased* future crime.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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"Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to provide for early voting?"
CT voters will see this question on the ballot on November 8, 2022. Learn more about early voting & what a "YES" vote would mean for CT HERE: conta.cc/3N3Iq9P
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Albert Woodfox, one of the Angola 3, died Thursday at the age of 75.
He served 43 years in solitary confinement, perhaps the longest in U.S. prison history, before he was freed in 2016.
nola.com/article_97013fb2-14…
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NY officials banned inmates from reading the Pulitzer-winning “Blood in the Water,” by the historian Heather Ann Thompson, about the deadly 1971 Attica prison uprising.
Now, after a lawsuit, they will allow the book -- but with 2 pages removed.
nyti.ms/3SfdQOm
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Our Prison Education Program & its collaboration with @YPEIdwighthall are expanding the associate degree program, launching a bachelor’s degree program, & becoming one of 73 schools nationwide selected to be part of @usedgov's Second Chance Pell Experiment bit.ly/3zeYcd0
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I’ve launched an online petition for Duke Ellington to be granted the Pulitzer Prize he was denied in 1965—despite the recommendation of the music jury.
You can learn more here: tedgioia.substack.com/p/lets…
😍 Very excited to see this! I hope some of the Institute’s work will connect academic librarians supporting college students in prison.🤞🏻
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By our count, at least ten papers about ivermectin and COVID-19 have been retracted. A 🧵retractionwatch.com/retracte…
