Democracy Conversations: Prison Graduation Initiative
Explore how Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative (PGI) empowers incarcerated individuals and foster pathways to civic engagement and community reintegration. Join Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy to discuss how PGI prepares students as change agents.
Register today.
Learn how the Prison Graduation Initiative transforms the lives of incarcerated students.
Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative (PGI) fosters individual and community transformation through higher education. As one of the country’s largest bachelor’s prison programs, PGI embeds institutionalized community engagement into three prisons to prepare students to become agents of change within their communities while incarcerated and upon their release. PGI pursues this objective through five foundational program principles:
- 2-year graduation roadmap
- Faculty training in transformative prison pedagogies for all our faculty
- Career engaged curriculum
- In-person academic and career skills support
- Service learning and community engagement
Join Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy in a discussion about the ways PGI exemplifies connections between education, civic responsibility, and community resilience.
Who should participate?
- Faculty
- Staff
- Administrators
- Librarians
How will you benefit?
- Understand how Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative fosters civic engagement in prisons.
- Explore the role of higher education in preparing incarcerated individuals for post-release success.
