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We are proud to announce that this October, we will join our partner, Cayuga Community College, to hold a graduation ceremony at Auburn Correctional Facility. At the ceremony, six CPEP …

CPEP’s fall semester is underway, and students in all three prisons are back in the classroom. Some are working toward their associate’s degrees, while those who have already earned their …

We held our 2026 CPEP Alumni Reunion at the Statler Hotel on Cornell’s Ithaca campus this past month.  We were joined by our partners at SUNY who are working with …

After many delays, we were finally able to hold a literary reading at Cayuga Correctional Facility, where student-authors shared selections from The Human Side of Us, our anthology of writing by …

Last Friday, the Cornell Prison Education Program in partnership with the Cornell Library hosted a Cornell Reunion event in Uris Library.  The panel discussion:  “A Cornell Degree in Prison: Leveraging …

CPEP had been awarded a $1.5M grant from Ascendium Education Group (see Cornell Chronicle). Building on an earlier award from Ascendium, this new grant will extend and expand our project of improving higher education …

After a full semester of research and practice, the Debate Club at Cayuga Correctional Facility took on members of Cornell’s Speech and Debate Society at the prison. The topic for this debate …

Earlier this month, CPEP staff presented at the two-day symposium Labor, Discipline, and the Carceral State, hosted by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Executive Director Rob Scott spoke …

Keri Blakinger ’14 returned to campus in April as a Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist.  Blakinger is a formerly incarcerated Cornell alumna and investigative journalist whose work has been nominated for both a …

In response to requests from our students in Auburn’s Writer’s Workshop for more opportunities to publish their work more broadly, we invited David Nutt, a staff writer focused on physical …