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BUS’ mission is to provide incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students with the opportunity to pursue higher education.
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Like a social pariah among victors with seemingly endless opportunities, I tactfully observed a living system of privilege and oppression that causes present and generational pain. I refused to submit to this feeling as I forged a new way forward.
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A UC Berkeley program is working to reverse the school-to-prison pipeline by supporting formerly incarcerated students and students who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.
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Delegates of the Graduate Assembly, or GA, unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday to support restructuring its relationship with the ASUC, from which the assembly has sought independence for several years.
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Building a robust “prison-to-college” pipeline that begins during incarceration and continues post-release would improve access to college for formerly incarcerated Californians.
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Sunday’s panel was about narratives of incarceration, yet the only one onstage who had personal experience with incarceration outside of volunteering was Alyssa Tamboura, the daughter of a previously incarcerated man.
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A proposed California State Senate bill may extend the availability of Cal Grant funds to incarcerated students.
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Danny Murillo from Norwalk, California, spent five of his 14 years behind bars in the infamous Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. At age 18, he entered prison after accepting a plea bargain to two counts of robbery. Once released, he went on to graduate with honors from
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In 2013, UC Berkeley alumni, Danny Murillo and Steven Czifra, met on campus and shared their backgrounds on being formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals. Together, Murillo and Czifra co-founded the Underground Scholars Initiative, or USI, a student-run organization for those who have been personally impacted by the U.S. criminal justice system.
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A campus report shows that about 66,000 donors contributed toward the grand total, which is composed of funds from 108,000 individual gifts.
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