Giving the Educated a Second Chance By Kwaneta Harris
A Second Chance Essay about the limited opportunities for people with an education once released from prison. The author has spent 7 years in solitary confinement.
Once the prison term is served the debt to society is paid. In the USA, we have shortages in various careers. Let us return to work.
A Chance for Dreams By Tracy Lee Kendall
A JSTOR Second Chance Essay outlining the journey to a prison-based college education and dreams for how to apply it post-release.
the true power of education is not only to enable your dreams, it extends through you to help others actualize theirs, for the pictures a lot bigger than 30 or 60 years of any life.
The Great Escape
A poem written by a person currently incarcerated in MN for JSTOR's Second Chance Essay Collection
Books incite dreams and dreams are dangerous, slipping easily between the bars
Second Chance Month Essays
A collection of creative works by people with lived experience inside jails and prisons that address education and Second Chances.
Creative works about education in prison for Second Chance Month written by people with lived experience.