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

The Daily Northwestern


NPEP is the only bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students offered by a top 10 university in the U.S.

Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates named commencement speaker for inaugural NPEP class

October 24, 2023

Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will address the first class of incarcerated students in the United States to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from a top 10 university. The Northwestern Prison...

A large white building, surrounded by trees and with steps leading up to it.

Panelists speak on incarcerated women’s experiences at Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership event

February 1, 2023

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual violence. Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership, the undergraduate wing of Northwestern Prison Education Program, hosted two panelists...

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 22, 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...

Eight women sitting in school desks in a circle smiling

NPEP expands to provide higher education to incarcerated women

January 23, 2022

After expanding to include students at the all-female Logan Correctional Center, Northwestern Prison Education Program has overcome obstacles from the pandemic, location and facility restrictions to provide...

Ahead of a large group of people, two people walk and hold a large banner that reads “Justice for Keith LaMar,” “Abolish the death penalty” and “End solitary.”

NU prison education programs host weekend of events with Justice for Keith LaMar campaign

November 15, 2021

The Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership and Northwestern Prison Education Program  co-hosted a weekend of events advocating justice for Keith LaMar, a death row prisoner in solitary confinement...

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