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Literacy

Hinds County Women Inmates’ Literacy and Education Program
Jackson, Mississippi

Project Director Mary Mitchell Rushing, Hinds County Sheriff’s Office Sargent Alleane Sutton, and Kendra Hughes, of the Region X Equity Assistance Center and the Northwest Regional Educational Lab

This project is providing female inmates in the custody of the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department with the same literacy, postsecondary, and vocational education opportunities as those provided to the male inmates. The services of this four-year project (2000-2004) include offering the female inmates the chance to read and write so that they may continue their education in the department’s high school equivalency program, as well as the opportunity to learn technological skills that will enhance their opportunity for employment after they are released.

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Women, Violence and Adult Education Project
Boston, Massachusetts

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The Women, Violence and Adult Education Project in Boston, Massachusetts, is a three-year poject (1999-2002) providing effective literary services for low-income women learners who have experienced violence in their lives. The model of innovative staff and program development, collaboration with other community agencies, and the development and dissemination of teacher/student generated educational materials is unique to World Education and has emerged from years of experience in adult literacy education.