Forging Their Own New Path
More than 600 graduates have earned their degrees through the Hudson Link Higher Education in Prison program over the last 20 years, through partnerships with nine colleges and six correctional facilities.
2019 Spring Benefit Dinner: Building a Better Future
2019 Spring Benefit Dinner: Building a Better Future, May 16, 2019. Buy Tickets Now!
Calling All Hudson Link Artists!
Hudson Link is looking for a special way to celebrate our 20th anniversary, and we need your help. We are seeking current Hudson Link students and alumni to design a creative, innovative and professional logo…
Hudson Link Prepares to Graduate 46 Students at Sing Sing Correctional Facility
On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, Hudson Link / Mercy College awarded 46 college degrees
Hudson Link For Higher Education In Prison Honors The Jacob Burns Film Center At Annual Benefit
On Thursday, May 17 the Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC), a nonprofit cultural arts center and one of the most successful suburban art house theaters in the country, received the Bill Webber Community Service Award…
Hudson Link Annual Spring Benefit Dinner
The Hudson Link Annual Spring Benefit Dinner was held May 17, 2018.
History in the Making: Congratulations to the First Ever Class of Graduates at Taconic!
Wednesday January 24th marked a groundbreaking moment in Hudson Link's history, when associate degrees were awarded to six of our students inside Taconic Correctional Facility.
St. Thomas Aquinas College to Host a Screening of First Degree
This event is free and open to the public and will be held on the campus on Thursday, October 19, 2017. Read More
Dr. Kim Hunter Reed to Serve as Keynote Speaker at Sing Sing Correctional Facility Graduation Ceremony
Hudson Link is thrilled to announce that Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, a noted advocate for increased access to higher education, will serve as the keynote speaker at the organization's June 7th commencement ceremony at Sing…
SUNY Sullivan 19 Graduates, 19 Honor Cords
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 Hudson Link celebrated the accomplishments of the most recent class of graduates from SUNY Sullivan’s associate degree program at Sullivan Correctional Facility. Read More
Hudson Link Awards 500th Degree
On June 7th, 2017 Hudson Link celebrated the accomplishments of Sing Sing’s Class of 2017 along with two major program milestones Read More
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…
SUNY Ulster Hosts “Zero Percent” Film Screening and Panel on Education in Prison
SUNY Ulster hosts a special event centered on the importance of access to higher education for people in the prison system. A film screening of “Zero Percent” and a panel discussion with members of the…
$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…