Muhlenberg College panel discusses higher education, jobs for once incarcerated people
April 7, 2025
Incarcerated people inevitably look forward to their release date, but the transition afterward isn’t always easy.
“I personally had a great support system, and it was still hard for me,” said Adam Petyo, a Muhlenberg College research assistant and student in the school’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
Petyo, who spent a year in the Lehigh County Jail, spoke on a panel Friday at Muhlenberg on the current landscape of higher education in correctional facilities.
The panel also covered re-entry, with a focus on how formerly incarcerated people can find and keep jobs.
Muhlenberg hosted a daylong conference Friday called Response & Repair: Higher Education, Corrections, and Solidarity
