Northwestern Prison Education Program: Sheridan Correctional Center

Northwestern Prison Education Program: Sheridan Correctional Center is an instructional site operated through Northwestern University's prison education initiative, located at Sheridan Correctional Center in Sheridan, Illinois. This program provides college-level coursework to incarcerated individuals as part of an effort to expand educational access within the correctional system. Specific enrollment figures, completion rates, and program details are not reported in available IPEDS data for this site.

No specific programs are listed in available records. Northwestern University's prison education program typically offers liberal arts and humanities courses leading toward college credit, with the goal of supporting educational attainment and reducing recidivism among participants. Students at this site should work with program administrators at Sheridan Correctional Center for enrollment and course information.

Sheridan is a village in La Salle County in north-central Illinois, approximately 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Sheridan Correctional Center is a medium-security adult male facility operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections, and the Northwestern Prison Education Program represents a collaboration between a major research university and the state correctional system to provide meaningful higher education opportunities within the facility.