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Rebecca Ginsburg is the director of the Education Justice Project which provides onsite programming and resources at the Danville Correctional Center through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
She said it’s been very difficult knowing these students are at risk and being unable to have any real contact with them.
“We know that people have died in prisons across Illinois. I have colleagues who have lost students to COVID,” she said. “Thank goodness we haven t today lost any EJP students to COVID, but the pandemic isn’t over yet.”
Ginsburg said people might assume they could do online learning, like other students, but there is none for prison education. Other programs have ceased completely, but the Education Justice Project was able to keep some courses going through paper correspondence.