About the Puttkammer Center for Educational Justice
The Puttkammer Center for Educational Justice is a division of the Petey Greene Program dedicated to expanding access to high-quality education in prisons and after release. We identify what works in carceral and reentry education, and advocate for the research, policy, and practice changes needed to bring it to scale nationally.
Our work builds on the Petey Greene Program's deep network of researchers, educators, and advocates — and on the knowledge of the people closest to the problem: those who have lived it. We center the experiences of system-impacted people in everything we do, from the research questions we ask to the coalitions we build.
The Center supports research that shifts how the field thinks about prison education, incubates promising new programs, and brings together practitioners, scholars, and formerly incarcerated leaders to advocate for lasting change. Our goal is simple: every person, inside or outside prison walls, deserves the chance to learn.
Recent research:
Results from our 2025 student survey