The following images are a sampling from our photographic collection. All images are believed to be in the public domain unless otherwise noted.
These are some of the contributors to the over 200 year history of correctional education, a movement spanning both continents and centuries.
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John Howard, founder of the prison
reform movement.
Few people are aware of Pestalozzi's contributions to correctional education.
Thomas Mott Osborne instituted
inmate participatory management
at several U.S. institutions.
Zebulon Brockway can be credited with the
invention of special education among his
many contributions.
Concepcion Arenal was a one-woman movement
for the rights of Spanish women and prisoners.
This type of lecture hall was developed uder the solitary
Pennsylvania system of prison management. Inmates
could see the speaker but not each other.
This image depicts a scene common in early,
unregulated jails.
Anton Makarenko is considered the
John Dewey of the Soviet Union.
Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. Alexander Maconochie
instituted many modern penal practices here in the 19th century.
Austin MacCormick studied under Osborne and went
on to found the Correctional Education Association and
the Journal of Correctional Education. His seminal 1931
book The Education of Adult Prisoners is in many ways still
the definitive book on the subject.
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