Jennifer Lackey

Activists protest outside the Cook County Jail calling for the mass release of incarcerated prisoners, April 7.

As Cook County Jail cases balloon, activists advocate for inmates

April 12, 2020

Jennifer Lackey, the director of Northwestern Prison Education Program, has been teaching courses at Stateville for six years.

Northwestern Prison Education Program receives $1 million grant

February 23, 2020

“Stateville Calling” shares the stories of elderly inmates and the push to re-institute parole in Illinois.

Northwestern Prison Education Programs hosts ‘Stateville Calling’ screening and Q&A

January 8, 2020

Neal Sáles-Griffin speaks at TEDxNorthwesternU. TEDxNorthwesternU is one of the few TEDx talks in the country entirely run by student

TEDxNorthwesternU spotlights the ‘visions and voices’ of Northwestern community

April 28, 2019

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