PGP is named after Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, Jr., a formerly incarcerated 1960s community activist and pioneering D.C. based radio and TV personality, who dedicated his life to advocacy on behalf of incarcerated people. Founded in 2008, the PGP now operates the largest multi-state tutoring program in jails, prisons, and detention centers, recruiting nearly 1,000 volunteers annually from 31 colleges in seven states, tutoring approximately 2,000 incarcerated people in 47 facilities. In addition to supporting the educational progress of system-impacted people, the PGP’s tutoring program has changed the trajectories of college student volunteers, many of whom go on to pursue careers in social justice because they want to do something about a system that punishes, excludes, and exiles people. PGP has increasingly met this demand by complementing the tutoring experience with justice-oriented education where volunteers learn about the injustices manifested by the carceral state so that they can engage ethically, avoid carceral humanism, and join system-impacted people as partners in reimagining the criminal legal system.