Our vision
The Calvin Prison Initiative provides education to adult learners in prison, equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to be community leaders. Our hope is that through this endeavor, not only will lives regain their hope, but prison culture will be transformed, and justice there will become not merely retributive, but restorative.
By the numbers
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57
Student inmates currently enrolled
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49
credits earned in two academic years
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100%
of student inmates passed every class in 2016–17.
Coursework
Students in the Calvin Prison Initiative take the same liberal arts core courses as students at the Knollcrest campus, such as Oral Rhetoric (CAS-101), Principles and Perspectives (SOC-151) and Fundamental Questions in Philosophy (PHIL-153). Students then take courses specifically oriented towards ministry leadership, such as Christian Formation (ML-121), Practice of Discipleship (ML-122), and Foundations for Pastoral Care (ML-221).