The Education Justice Project is a project of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to "build a model college-in-prison program that demonstrates the positive impacts of higher education upon incarcerated people, their families, the communities from which they come, the host institution, and society as a whole.
[2] Since 2009, the program has provided classes to more than 220 incarcerated people, primarily at Danville Correctional Center.
[3][4] The three sources of funds for the project are the University of Illinois, grants, and private donations.
The estimated value of donated time on the part of faculty, graduate students, staff, and community members amounted to more than $200,000.
[6] As of 2019, more than 220 people have taken classes through the program, including an estimated 5 students now in grad school.