CAPS also administers the WashU Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS) Prison Education Project (PEP). CAPS PEP offers credit-bearing college courses and degrees to incarcerated students at two Missouri prisons: the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, MO, and the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia, MO. As part of CAPS, PEP offers both an Associate in Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies (with concentrations in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Science & Mathematics). PEP cultivates a rigorous college-in-prison environment that encourages and supports lifelong curiosity, dialogue, and collaboration. By offering courses, degrees, and other opportunities for intellectual engagement in the liberal arts, PEP strives to nurture thinkers and social change agents who positively impact their communities, families, and each other. In addition to its programs for incarcerated students, PEP offers staff at the Missouri Department of Corrections the opportunity to pursue courses and degrees through CAPS.