News and Updates

We will have two Inside-Out classes in Winter 2024, applications due Monday, November 13th. Submit your application via Google form here. There is an optional informational session with the Prison Education Program coordinator and recent Inside-Out students in Room...

This week PEP TV Season 5 is being sent out to the 12 prisons in the Oregon state prison system. PEP TV compiles recorded guest lecturers, tutorials, and faculty talks on a broad range of subjects and sends these to all Oregon prisons to be shown on their TV channels....

It’s fabulous to see a familiar face on the cover of the Eugene Weekly! Congratulations to Shawn, who was a leader in our program, a “double duck,” and an asset to the community. Read here:...

Another year is off to a start at the Prison Education Program! This year the PEP is excited to have its largest group of interns it has ever had–a whopping 14 in total to help us tackle our many projects and programs. To kick off the school year, our intern and...

Our program has hoped to expand our offerings of business classes and workshops for years. Entrepreneurship is particularly valuable for people who are incarcerated, as self-employment is a way to avoid barriers in the job market and is a way to utilize people’s...

Not-for-credit workshops have been part of our program offerings for years, but they have been slow to restart since the pandemic. We are delighted, therefore, to have been invited by two OSCI groups – New Horizons and the Asian Club – to hold a two-part...