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APEP hosts community re-entry simulation

APEP hosts community re-entry simulation

Abbey Mondi March 20, 2024

The Augustana Prison Education Program (APEP) held a re-entry simulation in the Gavle rooms to immerse community members into a scenario that showed them what re-entering the world after incarceration...

APEP granted new computer lab

Krys Lee October 4, 2023

Augustana’s Prison Education Program (APEP) received a $50,900 grant from the Bard Prison Initiative to install a new computer lab, as well as an additional $20,000 from the Regional Development Authority...

Cover art for the APEP Poetry Book. Photo courtesy of Dr. Sharon Varallo.

APEP poetry blooms from behind bars

Lexi Woodcock and Mary Kate Hughes May 5, 2023

Raw expressions of anger, hopelessness, fear, love and nostalgia fill the pages of incarcerated students’ notebooks. With no computers in the prison, students of the Augustana College’s Prison Education...

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