Partners

TUPIT works in partnership with local and national networks of individuals, groups, and organizations working to improve the system of criminal justice through access to education:

• Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individual scholars and activists
• Bunker Hill Community College
• MA Department of Correction
• Partakers: College Behind Bars Mentoring Program
• Petey Greene Program
• Project Place
• Boston Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens
• Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
• Eliot Community Human Services
• Inside-Out Prison Exchange
• Educational Justice Initiative at MIT & Massachusetts Prison Education Consortium (MPEC)

We remain grateful for the early and essential help we received from the following local and national leaders in prison education:

• Robert Scott, Cornell Prison Education Program
• Jody Lewen, Prison University Project
• Carole Cafferty and Lee Pearlman, MIT’s TEJI
• Ed Wiltse, The Jail Project, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
• Bob Cadigan and Jim Matesanz, Boston University Prison Education Program
• Jean Trounstine, Changing Lives through Literature
• Jenifer Drew of Stone Associates, Lasalle College
• MA Department of Correction: Jamie Camacho, Brian Hogan, John Afonso, Mary Haynes, Megan Crowley, Talene Bare, & Dennis O’Neil

We also thank the TUPIT JumboCode team for supporting our Degree Program.