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These three videos highlight TEJI’s Philosophical Life Skills program, TEJI’s Brave Behind Bars web design program, and some reflections from Co-Director Lee Perlman and Senior Graduate Fellow Marisa Gaetz.
A multi-university consortium will look to transform the lives of incarcerated people through education.
The MIT Educational Justice Institute will lead a consortium to support expanding access to postsecondary education to people currently and formerly in prison statewide, fueled by a grant by the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other member schools include Boston University, Emerson College, Mt. Wachusett Community College, and Tufts University.
Read MoreThis article by The Tech describes a recent academic debate between the MIT Debate Team and the Norfolk Debating Society, sponsored and organized by TEJI. The debate centered around the following resolution: “pharmaceutical companies should be held criminally responsible for their role as contributors to America’s current opioid crisis.”
Read MoreIn 1987, while teaching a class at MIT on nonviolence, philosophy lecturer Lee Perlman had a novel idea: Why not take the students to a prison, to talk with men who had committed extreme forms of violence?
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