March 30, 2021
Pitt Magazine Feature on the Pitt Prison Education Project
February 23, 2021
Write Now! A Guide By and For Incarcerated Writers
January 22, 2020
Closing Ceremony of Pitt Literature Course Held at Laurel Highlands
On Dec. 9, 2019, SCI Laurel Highlands held the closing ceremony celebrating the successful completion of an Inside Out Literature course entitled "Imagining Social Justice," led by University of Pittsburgh faculty member Prof. Shalini Puri. Deputy Superintendent for Facilities Management Robert Snyder, who delivered some closing words, as well as Principal Martha Boyer and several teachers in the GED program, were present at the occasion.
December 5, 2019
Poems from prison: Students share incarcerated voices
November 6, 2019
‘Prison Sounds’ courses explore music born in and about incarceration
October 23, 2019
Guest Performer Presents to Laurel Highlands Inside-Out Class
The Pitt Prison Education Project brought Lacresha Berry, a New York City actress, director, writer and teacher to SCI Laurel Highlands. For the Inside-Out course, "Imagining Social Justice," Berry performed a snippet of "Tubman," her one-woman show. "Tubman" highlights what would happen if Harriet Tubman was a student in a Harlem pubic school today.
April 22, 2019
Inside-Out Graduation Ceremony Held
On April 16, the most-recently offered 12-week Inside-Out course "Literature of the Americas: Maps of the Missing" held its graduation ceremony. The "graduates" were 16 outside undergraduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and 15 inside SCI Fayette inmate students.
July 12, 2018
First Pitt Seed Project Awards Fund 23 Projects for ‘Transformation’
July 11, 2018
Pitt professors pursue new projects with Pitt Seed grants
March 28, 2018
Undergraduates Learn Alongside Inmates in Pilot Year of Prison Education Initiative
April 18, 2017