Program

FEPPS provides a rigorous college program to incarcerated women, transgender and gender nonconforming people in Washington and creates pathways to education after they release from prison.

FEPPS offers seven classroom-based college and pre-college courses per quarter at the Washington Corrections Center for Women culminating in an Associate of Arts degree. Students can also attend three weekly study halls, a monthly lecture series, student workshops, teacher trainings, and a library maintained by FEPPS at the prison. 

Mission and Values

Their mission is to provide a rigorous college program to incarcerated women in Washington and to create pathways to higher education after women are released from prison.

They Believe that Education

• Breaks the cycle of incarceration
• Prepares people to lead thoughtful and productive lives inside and outside prison
• Teaches skills needed to obtain meaningful employment and economic stability post-release
• Prepares women in prison to become providers, leaders, and examples for their families and communities

They envision a world in which people in prison can realize their academic potential through access to meaningful, sustained, high-quality educational opportunities; where a culture of punishment is replaced by a culture of human dignity.