LaGuardia Community College receives $900K to provide educational opportunities at Queensboro Correctional Facility

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Queensboro Correctional is a New York State reentry facility for male prisoners scheduled for released on parole within 120 days and those on work release, situated directly across the street from the college campus.

Prisoners preparing for release from Queensboro will be offered the opportunity to take credit-bearing, transferrable classes taught by LaGuardia faculty and instructors leading to an associate degree at LaGuardia, as well as GED, ESL, and professional workforce training courses offered through The ACT project builds upon LaGuardia’s longstanding relationship with Queensboro Correctional Facility. Since 2017, faculty have volunteered to teach no-credit courses in creative writing, philosophy of law, the politics of government and other topics at the facility, in a program developed and coordinated by Professor Chaney and Dr. Schwartz-Chaney.Amsterdam News is renowned for its reporting of the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years.

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