Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP) recently launched a six-month pilot program offering paid remote internships for incarcerated graduates in collaboration with the Alliance for Higher Education in Prisons and the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.
“This is not only a first for our program, this is a first for the Department of Corrections in Massachusetts,” said BCPEP Director and Ignacio Chair Patrick Conway, GMCAS ’12 and GLSOE ’22. “Honestly, nationally, there’s not too many of these opportunities that are regularly available.”
The Alliance currently employs two recent BCPEP graduates, both incarcerated at MCI-Shirley. As part of the internship, the interns earn $25 an hour and work 20 hours per week remotely…