sdevine, Author at Hudson Link - Higher Education in Prison

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Up the River: How a College Degree Helps Give Men and Women a Second Chance

For many incarcerated in Ossining, New York’s Sing Sing prison, the freedom granted to them after serving their sentences is illusory: Within three years, 42 percent of New York’s released inmates will find themselves locked…

Hope in Sing Sing Prison

Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison’s razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Read More

Sing Sing Prison Inmates Urge their Children to Make Positive Life Choices

Ossining program serves an outreach to prisoners’ young family members. “For many of the children in the neighborhood, they look up to us for all the wrong reasons. They look at prison as a rite…

Hudson Link to Host College Commencement Ceremony at Sullivan Correctional Facility

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 to Host College Commencement Ceremony at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

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…

$20,000 Gannett Foundation Grant Awards

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

photo by Adi Talwar. Steuben Vega now helps people coming out of prison get the job training they need. During his own stint, he found the vocational education options a poor fit for the modern workplace.

Education Programs for NY Prisoners Who Want to Get Out and Stay Out

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

Hudson Link Proves the Power of Prison Education

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…

Sean Pica, executive director of Hudson Link, celebrates recent graduates at a Hudson Link graduation ceremony

16 Years in Prison and 3 College Degrees

"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…

What Is Recidivism And What Can We Do About It?

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…

Posts by sdevine

Up the River: How a College Degree Helps Give Men and Women a Second Chance

Hope in Sing Sing Prison

Sing Sing Prison Inmates Urge their Children to Make Positive Life Choices

Hudson Link to Host College Commencement Ceremony at Sullivan Correctional Facility

Hudson Link to Host College Commencement Ceremony at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

$20,000 Gannett Foundation Grant Awards

Education Programs for NY Prisoners Who Want to Get Out and Stay Out

Hudson Link Proves the Power of Prison Education

16 Years in Prison and 3 College Degrees

What Is Recidivism And What Can We Do About It?

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