Also, mark your calendar for our February Research Group on Friday Feb 10, also from 3 - 4pm Central. Representatives of New York University's Prison Education Program Research Lab will discuss their recently published book, Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality.

If you'd like to learn more about EJP, our application process, or current opportunities to work with us this spring or next academic year, please attend one of our upcoming zoom info sessions.

(We are also holding in-person tables. Please see below.)

Drop by any time during the hour and stay for as long as you'd like. It is the same zoom link for both sessions.

There's a lot going on in EJP right now! New initiatives, new faces, and lots of plans!

Join us for our first EJP lunch of the new year to learn about what's in store for 2023. The first few lunches of the year will be via zoom. We hope to schedule in-person lunches by the time the weather starts to warm up.

All are welcome, including prospective members. Please RSVP.

We've been holding reading groups at the prison for years. This spring, we're hosting reading groups on campus for the first time. These are open to all EJP members, prospective members, and anyone else.

We'll meet in person and discuss each book over two meetings. Copies are available (for free) at the EJP offices at 1001 S. Wright Street, where we'll also host the groups. The office is open daily from 9 - 5, closed for lunch between 11 - 12.

We'll start off with Keith LaMar's Condemned. This account of the life of Mr. LaMar, incarcerated in Ohio, has special resonance, as he's scheduled to be executed later this year. We'll try to schedule a phone call with him, as he has phone access.

We'll also read Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, by Susan Burton and Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair, by Danielle Sered.

We hope you can join us!

Drop by an info table to pick up EJP materials and learn more about how you can get involved in our work.

Both tables will be held at 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign. On the 9th, the table will be on the first floor and on the 14th it will be in our second floor offices.

The photo above depicts members of our Language Partners program in EJP's Resource Room (as it was then called) at Danville Correctional Center. In 2011, LP was a brand new program, the first we're aware of to engage incarcerated scholars as peer ESL instructors. Erick Nava, center, was one of the founders.

Please join us at the 15th Anniversary celebration of EJP, where we'll reflect on past successes and struggles, the current state of our work, what motivates us, where EJP students and outside members are now, and what the road ahead looks like.

Sentences will be a look into the experience of those serving prison sentences, drawing upon the stories of my contacts inside, many of them serving long-term sentences. Sentences will also be a place to explore my writing and share with readers the process as I chase down leads.

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