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Yale Prison Education Initiative

at Dwight Hall at Yale

The Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall expands upon existing Yale participation in prison education by bringing access to rigorous, for-credit Yale College courses and other programming to incarcerated students in Connecticut prisons.

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"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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Prison Education By the Numbers

Number of people incarcerated in the United States:

2.2 million

 

Number of prisons in Connecticut:

15

Books and supplies for one incarcerated student in YPEI pilot:

$165

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Percentage of YPEI partner program Bard Prison Initiative students who return to prison after release:

4%

Cost to taxpayers to incarcerate one person for a year:

$60,000

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Percent of people in state prison who have had some form of postsecondary education:

22%

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