LaGuardia Neighborhood Faculty/CUNY has been awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant from the U.S. Division of Justice (USDOJ) to offer instructional, coaching, and wraparound providers for residents of Queensboro Correctional Facility.
Queensboro Correctional is a New York State reentry facility for male prisoners scheduled for launched on parole inside 120 days and people on work launch, located immediately throughout the road from the faculty campus. By way of the Accelerated Faculty Transition (ACT) mission, LaGuardia will tackle the distinctive wants of New York State male prisoners each pre-release and post-release, serving to them full their instructional targets, qualify for enhanced profession alternatives, and obtain profitable long-term group reintegration.
LaGuardia is one in all solely 10 establishments nationwide awarded funding for enhancing correctional training and coaching from the USDOJ’s Second Likelihood Act Enhancing Reentry Schooling and Employment Outcomes initiative [data.ojp.usdoj.gov]—and the one recipient that may present providers in New York State.
“As a previously incarcerated particular person who as soon as slept at Queensboro Correctional Facility earlier than my launch in 2003, it’s a real blessing that I’m now being given this wonderful alternative to use my private expertise and tutorial analysis focus to assist present and future facility residents get on observe for constructive outcomes upon launch,” mentioned John R. Chaney, J.D., affiliate professor of Prison Justice at LaGuardia, member of the Queensboro Correctional Facility Advisory Board, and principal investigator for the ACT mission.
Queensboro Correctional Facility residents taking part within the ACT mission will obtain pre-release and post-release help from admissions by way of commencement, together with particular person case administration, monetary help, and course choice advisement.
Prisoners making ready for launch from Queensboro will probably be provided the chance to take credit-bearing, transferrable courses taught by LaGuardia school and instructors resulting in an affiliate diploma at LaGuardia, in addition to GED, ESL, {and professional} workforce coaching programs provided by way of LaGuardia’s Persevering with Schooling Division.
The ACT mission builds upon LaGuardia’s longstanding relationship with Queensboro Correctional Facility. Since 2017, school have volunteered to show no-credit programs in inventive writing, philosophy of legislation, the politics of presidency and different matters on the facility, in a program developed and coordinated by Professor Chaney and Dr. Schwartz-Chaney.
