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Scene from a class at Cayuga Correctional Facility, taught by Joseph Margulies, professor of Law and Government, and Hailey Shapiro '22, teaching assistant.
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In this newsletter
- Feature story in Cornell Chronicle provides a comprehensive report on CPEP
- Get Involved! Help CPEP during Cornell's Giving Day, March 12
- "Welcome to the Zo" illuminates the experience of prison in first person
- CPEP expands access to scientific literature in prison
- NYC Event to feature two former CPEP law instructors, now elected leaders, April 17
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New Cornell Chronicle feature story, 'Making the turn': from inmate to scholar, is the most comprehensive news report on the impact of the Cornell Prison Education Program to date.
"We're going to the people who everyone else has decided is not fit for society ... and giving them a chance to learn." —Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government
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 Be a CPEP Giving Day Ambassador
Cornell's Giving Day is a 24-hour online fundraising drive. This year, for the first time, CPEP will be featured. In order to make the most out of this opportunity, we need your help spreading the word.
- Go to our page and click "Fundraise."
- Compose a short statement explaining what being a CPEP community member means to you and why you think people should support the program. Your statement will appear at the top of the page when you share.
- On Giving Day (March 12), send email and post to social media encouraging your friends to contribute to CPEP via this page.
- Gifts to CPEP from you and others will be tallied throughout the day.
We will be corresponding with all who help throughout the process and following up afterwards to share the impact of our first swing at Cornell's Giving Day.
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CPEP Expands Access to Scientific Literature in Prison
 Research using scientific literature is key to a college education. This month, Cornell librarians debuted an offline version of the PubMed research index, which focuses on biomedical research, to broaden the research resources available to our students inside prison, reports CPEP's Academic Director Tess Wheelwright.
Matt Connolly, the Cornell Library's programmer behind the creation of this offline index, says that there are some 35 million accessible article citations, hundreds of gigabytes of data, going back to the 1970s, which are searchable by article title, abstract, and keywords. His system puts all of that onto two thumb drives.
 "Ultimately," Connolly says, "what this system has to do is give [incarcerated] students a way to browse and search the citations and create a list of articles they are interested in." Literature requests are then fulfilled on campus.
Two incarcerated students who are studying the causes of enterocolitis and the Zika virus, respectively, will be the first to make use of the offline PubMed system.
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 "Welcome to The Zo"
Lawrence Bartley of The Marshall Project writes, "people who have been incarcerated often struggle to explain how surreal and daunting it can be just to survive in prison. That's why we created this unusual animated feature, Welcome to The Zo." These three short videos about prison life by Molly Crabapple, narrated by Michael K. Williams, took nearly three years to produce. They are based on a huge archive of letters compiled by the American Prison Writing Archive, an open-source database created by Professor Doran Larson of Hamilton College.
The videos are part of an important project of formulating the lived experience of incarceration, and the machinations of power inside these colossal institutions.
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Two former CPEP law instructors, now elected leaders,
to speak at event in NYC
April 17th, 2020 the CPEP Alumni Association proudly presents...
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