Thu, 03/18/2021 – 11:00am Published in the Penobscot Bay Pilot The University of Maine at Augusta and the Maine Department of Corrections have opened the Doris Buffett Higher Education Center at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The ribbon cutting ceremony marked the end of the renovation project at MSP and was a celebration of
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March 3, 2021
‘Finding Our Voices’ receives $50,000 grant
CAMDEN — “Finding Our Voices,” the Camden-based, grassroots nonprofit organization marshaling survivor voices and faces to break the silence of domestic abuse, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation. Diane Grimsley, The Sunshine Lady Foundation president and board member since 1996, said “This grant was approved knowing that the Sunshine Lady Foundation founder
UMA prison education partnership to expand after receiving a nearly million-dollar grant
The grant will help hire a new director, expand the humanities classes offered and allow UMA to purchase new technology for the program. By Emily Duggan Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — Daniel Porter never envisioned wanting to be any type of educator. But after taking college courses to gain his bachelor’s degree while incarcerated at the
UMA receives $941,000 grant to support, expand Prison Education Partnership Program
Penobscot Bay Pilot, 02/01/2021 THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO SUPPORT STUDENTS SUCH AS THE APPROXIMATE 82 INMATES CURRENTLY ENROLLED Through its Future of Higher Learning in Prison grant program, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s (Mellon Foundation) awarded the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) a $941,000 grant in support of its Prison Education Partnership (PEP) program. The Future of
January 4, 2021
Doris Buffett’s Sunshine Lady Foundation helps local parents through respite camp
September 10, 2018 , Clemson News For Michelle Munson, Camp Sunshine is better than Christmas. Michelle, the daughter of Don and Elizabeth Munson of Simpsonville, has autism and myotonic muscular dystrophy, making it hard for her to attend typical summer camps. But for the past 10 years, Michelle has had a chance to be an
November 24, 2020
A second chance
Within the walls of the Sampson County Correctional Facility, a team of Campbell professors is changing lives, providing hope to incarcerated students By Billy Liggett, Campbell University Magazine It’s the final day of English 102 in a semester marred by a global pandemic, a long postponement of classes and a switch to learning via Zoom.
October 24, 2020
(Carteret) County Domestic Violence Program celebrates new safe house, monument
Carteret News-Times, Cheryl Burke To celebrate those who made construction of a new safe house for domestic violence survivors possible, the Carteret County Domestic Violence Program unveiled a monument in their honor at Jaycee Park Thursday. The monument and program also raised awareness of domestic violence, with October recognized as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
October 16, 2020
Empowering Change
PSU Is Charting New Pathways To Education For Incarcerated Students By Summer Allen, Oct. 16, 2020 Josefina’s father was murdered three months before she was born. When she was 12 she started getting involved in drugs and gangs. She dropped out of the seventh grade. Then, at 15, she was arrested for her involvement in
October 15, 2020
He got life for stealing hedge clippers under Louisiana’s habitual offender law. Now he’s free after 24 years.
BY LEA SKENE | STAFF WRITER, The Advocate, UPDATED OCT 15, 2020 AT 5:22 PM A lot has changed since Fair Wayne Bryant was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers more than two decades ago. For starters, the Louisiana Legislature decided to tweak the
September 30, 2020
Female Entrepreneurship Program Now Part of Prisons/Southeastern Partnership
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 – 10:49am The Division of Prisons works tirelessly to train offenders for life back in the community. Educational and job training opportunities abound in the state’s 50-plus facilities through Correction Enterprises and other avenues, but the majority of those opportunities benefit male offenders. Thanks to its continuing partnership with The College