Annual Reports

2025 PJI Annual Report

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 PJI Annual Report is now live! In 2025, the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) had a year full of milestones worth celebrating. Among them, Tyrone Walker, a PJI staff member and program alum, became the first formerly incarcerated participant to earn a degree from Georgetown University. Walker’s story, from student in the Prison Scholars Program at the D.C. Jail to PJI’s first Director of Reentry Services, is exactly what PJI’s mission looks like in action.

The Prison Scholars Program continued offering Georgetown courses inside D.C. Jail, spanning the humanities, public policy, and social sciences, with the addition of the pilot performance course “In Your Shoes.” At Patuxent Institution, the Bachelor of Liberal Arts Program expanded with a new Writing Center, Lecture Series, and inaugural faculty directors.

Both reentry programs, the MORCA-Georgetown Paralegal Program and the Georgetown Pivot Program, graduated new cohorts of talented professionals who are already excelling in their careers and giving back to their communities. The Family First Program created unforgettable experiences for justice-impacted families throughout the year, and the Making an Exoneree team celebrated the return home of two more wrongfully convicted individuals. It was a year that reminded all of us why this work matters. Read more about the milestones in the 2025 PJI Annual Report!