Prison Education Program

The ASU Department of English’s Prison Education Programming (PEP—formerly Prison English) begins with a belief that education is a right that inheres within our humanity. It is not a right that stops at a prison’s gates. Education needs to traverse borders and boundaries, including prison boundaries.

More than 30 faculty members, graduate students and staff work with the Arizona Department of Corrections and new Mexico Corrections Department and an advisory committee to offer more than 30 weekly classes to inmates. The courses range from English and creative writing to biology, drama, art and philosophy, math, psychology, languages and public speaking.

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Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
Center for Science and the Imagination
Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
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Health Humanities Initiative
Humanities Institute
Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
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School of International Letters and Cultures
School of Life Sciences
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