Press Releases

Not only will 176 participants and alumni of our program have returned home to their families and communities by year-end, with both the support and life skills needed to succeed outside of prison, but the Hudson Link family has also found a permanent home in our new historic office building located at 23 State Street in Ossining, NY. Read More

Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Executive Director Sean Pica is in Washington, DC today at the historic announcement of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, which will allow incarcerated students to receive federal Pell Grant funding for postsecondary education. Read More

Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Executive Director Sean Pica joined Nyack College President Dr. Michael Scales on a visit to the White House on Friday, June 10, along with other college and university officials to sign a historic pledge supporting higher education for formerly incarcerated people. Read More

Thanks to a program called Hudson Link, a program that provides education to hardened criminals, the Sing Sing inmates were able to graduate from Mercy College. “Oh, it broadened my horizons,” says Herbert Morales, 50. “Before I was in this program, I thought the border stopped at Brooklyn.” Read More