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The Elevating Connection of Higher Education in Prison: An Incarcerated Student’s Perspective
The author of this paper has lived in Georgia prisons for over ten years and has benefited from higher educational programs while incarcerated. He draws from limited Internet access behind a firewall, personal interviews with other incarcerated students,
David Evans
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Within higher education, there is growing momentum to provide students who are incarcerated with access to quality higher education. This Spring 2022 Special Issue focuses on the racism within higher education in prison.
Cristobal Salinas Jr., Ph.D.
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Education and Transformation: An Argument for College in Prison
This essay explores the dynamics of what it means to learn inside of a prison by featuring a narrative written by a an individual who has been incarcerated for more than 20 years.
Carmen Heider, Karen Lehman
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Philosophical Implications of Taxpayer Funding for Prison Education
This paper attempts to address the question of whether it is fair to use US taxpayer dollars on prison education programs. Through a philosophical inquiry from a pragmatist lens and a feminine ethic of care, issues of fairness are clarified.
Jason Harnish
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Conversations about reducing recidivism can be reductionist. This paper introduces strategies by which college-in-prison programs can collect post-release data on their students, as well as the research methods necessary to make predictive claims about ...
Robert Scott
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Special Issue: Similar Challenges in a Different Setting: Racism and Higher Education in Prison
This Special Issue is a labor of love from activists, professors, practitioners, and community organizers committed to addressing racial inequity in higher education in prison.
Satra D. Taylor +5 more
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Promoting Informed Citizenship through Prison-based Education
There are two dominant frames that emerge in the political discourse regarding whether or not public funds should be invested in educating incarcerated adults in the United States.
Abena Subira Mackall
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Higher Education in Prison Contexts: The Prison Situation as Limit Experience [PDF]
The prison experience is not exclusive to those, for whom the State has removed their freedom. According to Heidegger, humans can live in a prison for our entire existence. The family of origin, the one you build, school, among others, may be true prisons from which it is incredibly difficult to separate.
Mónica Díaz Pontones +1 more
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Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels +3 more
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The Art of Liberating Humanity
The Art of Liberating Humanity is an essay that gestures at abolitionist prison reform. Situating itself against liberal and neo-liberal calls for greater access to any and all forms of education in prisons, particularly the prevailing trends that ...
Brandyn Heppard
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