Hudson Link / SUNY Sullivan Community College to award an Associate degree in Liberal Arts to 20 men at Sullivan Correctional Facility on Wednesday, June 1st. Read More
Hudson Link / Mercy College to award 13 Associate and 23 Bachelor degrees in Behavioral Science at Sing Sing Correctional Facility on Wednesday, June 7th. Colorado Department of Higher Education Executive Director Kim Hunter Reed to serve as the keynote speaker. Read More
Help Us Celebrate 18 Years of Transforming Lives, Grand Hyatt New York, Thursday, May 11, 2017. Executive Director Sean Pica and the Board of Hudson Link invite you to join us in celebrating our history and honoring two individuals who have made significant contributions toward achieving our mission. Read More
Gannett Foundation Grant Reception in White Plains, Jan. 18, 2017. The media group awarded $20,000 to four organizations, including Hudson Link, in the lower Hudson Valley. Read More
A course at Clinton Correctional prison taught him to cut and solder pipes for air conditioning systems but the lesson Steuben Vega remembers best is how to count cards. Read More
Douglas Duncan dropped out of high school with little self-worth or hope for a future. Associations with the wrong people and a string of poor choices landed him in prison at the age of 24 with three young children at home.
“I believed that my life was over. I believed that I had no possibility of redemption. I believed that prison was all I was worth.” Read More
“I woke up in a place I didn’t know existed. I thought my life was over.”
These are the words of Sean Pica, who found himself in prison at the age of 16, staring down a 24-year sentence. Young, shy, and ashamed of what he’d done, Sean found himself trying to grow up and survive in prison – all at the same time. Read More
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, the United States is home to an estimated 6.8 million people under supervision in the U.S. adult correctional system, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Read More
Not only will 176 participants and alumni of our program have returned home to their families and communities by year-end, with both the support and life skills needed to succeed outside of prison, but the Hudson Link family has also found a permanent home in our new historic office building located at 23 State Street in Ossining, NY. Read More
On September 29th Hudson Link hosted a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in celebration of the grand opening of the Doris E. Buffett Building for Higher Education in Prison – the new, permanent home of Hudson Link. Read More