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Yale Prison Education Initiative

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The Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall brings access to rigorous, for-credit Yale College courses and other student support programming to incarcerated students in Connecticut prisons. Through our partnership with University of New Haven, students are matriculated in two- and four-year college degrees.

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Yale Alumni write in about YPEI

In the November/December issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine, readers wrote in moving reflections on Dylan Walsh's cover story about the...

YPEI Celebrates One Year at Danbury Federal Prison

Read the full article by Emma Yanai on Dwight Hall's website: In October 2023, Dwight Hall’s Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI)...

YPEI on the cover of the Yale Alumni Magazine

Through the Yale Prison Education Initiative, faculty are bringing Yale courses to people behind bars. Read more in the cover story...

YPEI Featured on MSNBC

Yale Prison Education Initiative Founding Director Zelda Roland and College-to-Career Fellow Marcus Harvin joined Katie Phang on MSNBC to...

YPEI Alum and Fellow Marcus Harvin Featured on UNH Blog

Read the full article on the Charger Blog at this link For Marcus Harvin ’25, volunteering with Neighborhood Housing Services in New...

Yale University Library Spotlights YPEI Support

Read the full article at this link: "Library provides essential support to incarcerated students earning college degrees" In June, the...

YPEI-YSoA 2022 Fellow Receives Prestigious NXTHVN Fellowship

Congratulations to 2022 YPEI-Yale School of Art Fellowship Recipient, Alex Puz, who was selected for the NXTHVN Studio and Curatorial...

Celebrating our First Graduates

At an extraordinary graduation ceremony on June, Commencement Speaker Governor Ned Lamont joined us in celebrating the first graduates of...

YPEI Highlighted at "Yale and Slavery" Closing Roundtable

On October 28-30, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition held its 23rd annual conference on the...

"I began my educational journey in a prison, and I desire to go as far as I can..."

-GEORGE CHOCHOS, B.A. BARD PRISON INITIATIVE; M.DIV., YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL, 2016

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