With judges giving - and the public demanding - longer and more mandatory sentences to crack down on crime, Gov. George Pataki abolished most educational prison programs in 1995. The Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a privately funded program at Sing Sing, is the only college-degree- granting program left in the New York State prison system.-from Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.


I added a few links related to this in the Resources Links Thread for while they are incarcerated and programs when they are released.

Check out this link here at PTO for more Education information and also, the Resources Link Thread at the top of the NY forum here.

info on inmate college programs, financial aid
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54695

Sing-Sing Program
http://newyorkprisoners.com/parole/overview.html#

these are very helpful links :) :thumbsup: