When legislation passed in 1994 denying Pell Grants for incarcerated students, prison college programs—once considered a valuable instrument for transformation— became nearly extinct. Access to higher education is increasingly aligned with privilege, and the messy intersection of incarceration and higher education aptly reflects the use of oppression, inequality, and surveillance as a means to profit—also
known as the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC).
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric