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
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…
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…
What an Incredibly Impactful Year 2016 has Proven to Be!
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…