About the Puttkammer Center for Educational Justice
The Puttkammer Center for Educational Justice—a division of the Petey Greene Program—aims to identify and promote best practices in carceral and reentry education, acting as a catalyst for evidence-based program innovation and research-based policy proposals that expand access to high-quality education behind and beyond bars. The Center leads with data and evidence to drive change in prison education on a national level. The Center’s work grew out of the Petey Greene Program’s proven expertise and network of researchers, practitioners, and experts, while centering the voices and experiences of system-impacted people. The Center supports research that leads to cultural change, incubates innovative solutions, and builds cross-sector coalitions of researchers, practitioners, and leaders with lived experience of incarceration to promote access to quality education behind and beyond bars.
Recent research:
Results from our 2025 student survey