FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THEI ANNOUNCES HISTORIC PARTNERSHIP WITH TDOC AND LANE COLLEGE June 25, 2021 Nashville, Tennessee – The Tennessee Higher Education Prison Initiative (THEI) announces a new
After an extensive search, the Tennessee Higher Education in Prison Initiative (THEI) has named Laura Ferguson Mimms, Ed.D. its next Executive Director. Ferguson Mimms succeeds Molly Lasagna, the organization’s leader
Providing access to Pell Grants to people in prison will save taxpayer dollars, cultivate safer communities and end mass incarceration. As the executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education
Jameel Spann was a junior year at Fisk University when he got arrested. Facing a 15-year prison sentence, he didn’t know if he’d ever graduate. But after more than a
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Reversing a 25-year ban, Congress recently agreed to expand Pell Grants to incarcerated students. Now some 463,000 people behind bars have the opportunity to access higher education. How will colleges