Hope-Western Prison Education Program
The Hope-Western Prison Education Program is an initiative that provides a Christian liberal arts education to incarcerated men at the Muskegon Correctional Facility.
Why a Prison Program?
Higher education has proven positive effects on prisoners, prison culture, and prison systems. The Hope-Western Prison Education Program seeks to renew hearts and minds while transforming the prison, the college, the seminary, and the West Michigan community into places where “righteousness and peace embrace” (Psalm 85:10).
Graduate Certificate in Restorative Justice
The Graduate Certificate in Restorative Justice includes taking integrated “inside-out” classes at the Muskegon Correctional Facility, where students will learn in a classroom integrated with both “inside” students (incarcerated students in the Hope-Western Prison Education Program) and “outside” students (WTS students).
Learning about restorative justice and its practices in an integrated classroom in a prison where many intersecting justice issues are present is a rare and formative opportunity.
SUPPORT HWPEP
We rely on donations to provide everything needed — professors, books, educational supplies — in order to challenge our students with an outstanding liberal arts curriculum while also focusing on moral rehabilitation and spiritual formation. Thank you so much for your help in making this important and transformative program possible!
HAVE QUESTIONS?
Contact the HWPEP team to learn more by contacting a member of our team directly or emailing prisonprogram@hope.edu.