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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern Prison Education Program Director Jennifer Lackey meets with students at Logan Correctional Facility in a circle.

Northwestern Prison Education Program establishes bachelor’s program to advance education for the incarcerated

May 23, 2022

General Studies student Broderick Hollins first learned about Northwestern and Oakton Community College’s opportunities for incarcerated degree-seekers from a memo board in the Danville Correctional...

Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey leads a class at Stateville Correctional Center. Lackey and One Book One Northwestern volunteers visited the prison Wednesday to lead a discussion with inmates on “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Stateville inmates draw parallels between prison life, dystopian fiction at One Book event

February 21, 2019

CREST HILL, Ill. — In “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, women in the dystopian society of Gilead are stripped of their power, left without control over their lives and bodies. Demetrice...

Northwestern launches prison education program, will provide college credits to inmates

Northwestern launches prison education program, will provide college credits to inmates

October 5, 2018

CREST HILL — For 37-year-old inmate Tony Triplett, life often felt “colorless.” He is serving a life sentence in Stateville Correctional Center after being convicted of raping and killing two...

Jennifer Lackey

Philosophy professor holds ethics classes at maximum security prison

February 26, 2017

CREST HILL — Robert Cloutier, 53, remembers when he was sentenced to death. “You have to kill him now,” he recalled prosecutors saying. “You don’t want him back out again.” Twenty-seven...

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