February 13, 2015: Prisoner reentry initiatives were in the news recently in two major media outlets. Al Jazeera published a substantive article on John Jay’s “prison to college” program that is helping to build brighter futures for ex-prisoners and to change public attitudes to their rehabilitation. The Marshall Project interviewed John Jay College President Jeremy Travis about entrepreneurship as a way out from prison to prosperity. Links to the stories are below:

• 'Prison to college' programme builds brighter futures
• Start Me Up 

For more information about John Jay’s Prisoner Reentry Institute, visit:

http://johnjayresearch.org/pri/

For President Travis’s bio, click here.