Non-Stigmatic and Stigmatic Situational Barriers to Postsecondary Participation Experienced by Formerly Incarcerated Community College Students

• In Event: Centering Often Decentered Student Populations

Abstract

Education helps reduce recidivism and improve employment prospects of formerly incarcerated individuals, however, much remains unknown about experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals in higher education. This phenomenological study examined situational barriers to postsecondary participation experienced by formerly incarcerated community college students so strategies may be developed to overcome identified barriers.

Author

• Miah LaPierre Dreger, Capital Community College