{"id":97925,"date":"2026-02-21T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97925"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:41:17","slug":"earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/02\/21\/earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Earning a degree behind bars is difficult. Finding housing after release can be harder. [West]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/college-inside.beehiiv.com\/p\/earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Earning a degree behind bars is difficult. Finding housing after release can be harder.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from college-inside.beehiiv.com by Charlotte West<br \/>\n<em>Some prison education programs are expanding their services to provide their alumni with a place to live alongside job assistance and other support.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>Short on time? Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The number of people coming home from prison with college degrees is expected to increase with the return of Pell Grants. Recognizing that housing underpins successful reentry, some prison education programs are expanding their services. College Inside\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opencampus.org\/2026\/02\/20\/earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder\/?utm_source=college-inside.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Hudson Link<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0in New York State.\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>In a<\/i>\u00a0<i><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opencampus.org\/2025\/02\/27\/first-person-they-ban-books-by-black-authors-then-they-tell-us-to-celebrate-black-history-month\/?utm_source=college-inside.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=earning-a-degree-behind-bars-is-difficult-finding-housing-after-release-can-be-harder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first-person essay<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0we published last year, incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris asks: how can prisons celebrate Black History Month while banning the very books that tell Black history?<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earning a degree behind bars is difficult. Finding housing after release can be harder. &#8212; from college-inside.beehiiv.com by Charlotte West Some prison education programs are expanding their services to provide their alumni with a place to live alongside job assistance and other support. Short on time? Here\u2019s what you need to know: The number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,3,480,293,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-higher-education","category-society","category-sociology","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97926,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97925\/revisions\/97926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}