Education Justice Project (EJP)

EJP is a comprehensive college-in-prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We offer programming in three areas.

First, we offer upper-division University of Illinois courses and extracurricular activities at Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison about 45 miles from the Urbana-Champaign campus. The learning community that EJP instructors and students continually recreate at the prison is at the core of everything else that EJP does, and drives our other activities.

Second, through our Reentry Guide Initiative, we produce reentry guides and other reentry resources, and distribute them to incarcerated individuals, family members, and service agencies across the state and beyond.

Finally, we host programs on campus to meet some of the needs that we have become aware of through our work. For instance, in recognition of the deleterious impacts of incarceration on family members, we have a scholarship program. To support progressive policy-making around criminal justice, we host events on campus and the community to educate the public and elected officials.