Mass Incarceration: Home

A resource guide for prospective students.

Evergreen faculty offer the Gateways College Class twice a week inside the Green Hill School, a juvenile correctional facility for young men under 21. Unique features include:
-Evergreen college students and incarcerated youth learn together in the same classroom.
-Both college and high school credits can be earned.
-Incarcerated youth help design lesson plans and lead workshops with other students.

The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by producing groundbreaking research to promote reforms in sentencing policy, address unjust racial disparities and practices, and to advocate for alternatives to incarceration.

The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.

Our agency was established in 1930 to provide more progressive and humane care for federal inmates, to professionalize the prison service, and to ensure consistent and centralized administration of federal prisons.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels.

The criminal justice system is heavily impacted by the bias of police mentality, as well as outdated judicial precedents. It is largely driven by racial disparities, which directly obstruct and deconstruct our minority communities.

Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP addresses 21st century challenges such as race and criminal justice.

With a staff of more than 100 lawyers and advocates, SPLC focuses on impact litigation in these practice areas: Children’s Rights, Economic Justice, Immigrant Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Voting Rights, and Criminal Justice Reform.

Learning & Working Programs

UBB serves incarcerated individuals at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, WA, offering transferable AA and BA degrees along with a range of cultural and college prep classes and an Arts and Lecture series that is open to the entire prison population. Each semester UBB offers approximately 25 courses to over 300 students, many of whom are attending college for the first time.

Studies show that two years of post-secondary education reduces the rate of recidivism by more than 50%.

FEPPS provides a rigorous college program for incarcerated women, trans-identified and gender nonconforming people in Washington and creates pathways to higher education after students are released from prison. Our goals are to increase FEPPS students’ economic and personal empowerment, contribute to family stability and reduce recidivism through college education.

Includes book chapters and journal articles

On September 9, 2016 IWOC were part of a coalition of inside and outside groups that launched the largest prison strike in US history. Resistance to prison slavery continues with work stoppages, hunger strikes and other acts of resistance to business as usual.

PEN America’s Prison Writing Program has amplified the writing of thousands of imprisoned writers by providing free resources, skilled mentors, and audiences for their writing.