INN collaborates with local institutions around the world to foster creative prison-university partnerships that leverage the power of education and nurture leaders with lived experience. Some of these programs fall under the umbrella of the Prison-to-College Pipeline (P2CP), which Dr. Baz founded at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2010.
Not a cut-and-paste model but a philosophy that manifests uniquely in various global contexts, the Education Not Incarceration movement has two premises: 1. Universities have a powerful and apolitical role to play in creating safer communities; and 2. All educational programs that operate inside prisons must be continued on the outside, when incarcerated people come home from prison—hence the concept of the “pipeline,” a continuum.
In 2022 INN formed a partnership with the Bard Prison Initiative and Open Society University Network to bring funding and support to prison-university partnerships worldwide. This resulted in the development of a community of practice supporting and connecting programs in the following countries: South Africa, Argentina, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Austria and Mexico.
In 2024 INN launched the Global Freedom Scholars Network (GFS), a transnational network of formerly incarcerated university students. GFS launched at a high-profile global convening in São Paulo, Brazil, in August, 2024.
INN has also worked with COSTAATT, a community college in Trinidad & Tobago, to launch Link Up: A Prison-to-College Pipeline initiative there.
