The mission of the Institute for Higher Education Policy is to increase access and success in postsecondary education around the world through unique research and innovative programs that inform key decision makers who shape public policy and support economic and social development.

It seems that the very people who make up the prison population are those who have had the least opportunity prior to incarceration. Higher education programs in prisons may be a way to help break this cycle of inequality.

—Wendy Erisman, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation