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Program Services newsletter / by North Carolina.Division of Prisons.Program Services.; North Carolina.Division of Prisons.(CARDINAL)194107;
Subjects: North Carolina. Division of Prisons. Program Services; Criminals; Prisoners;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Our class : trauma and transformation in an American prison / by Hedges, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)672942;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.The Call -- The Antenna -- Mama Herc -- Rage and Terror -- The Song -- Rebels -- Family -- The Code -- The Play."Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--
Subjects: Case studies.; East Jersey State Prison.; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminals; Prisoners; Prisoners;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / by Karpowitz, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)414477;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A Note on Text -- 1. Getting In: Conflicting Voices and the Politics of College in Prison -- 2. Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration -- 3. Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment -- 4. The First Graduation: Figures of Speech -- 5. Replication and Conclusions: College, Prison, and Inequality in America."This book tells the story of the Bard Prison Initiative--a unique example of academic excellence unfolding inside high-security prisons across New York. Through the Initiative, hundreds of incarcerated men and women go to Bard College full-time while still in prison, and thrive at the highest academic levels the college has to offer. This remarkable student body is demographically identical to the larger population of people in New York's prisons, and thus quite unlike those students who usually have access to, and succeed in, America's leading liberal arts colleges. Those who have graduated and left prison are thriving in for-private companies, leading service agencies, and completing further study at elite graduate schools for academia and the professions. The rigor and depth of what and how these students learn, and the careers they pursue once home, force us to rethink preconceptions about who is in prison, what American systems of punishment really mean, and the continued relevance of liberal learning"--"The nationally renowned Bard Prison Initiative demonstrates how the liberal arts can alter the landscape inside prisons by expanding access to the transformative power of American higher education. American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative, however, is different. As this compelling new book reveals, BPI has fostered a remarkable transformation in the lives of thousands of prisoners.College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided a high-quality liberal arts education--with courses ranging from anthropology to Mandarin to advanced mathematics--to New York State prisoners who, upon release, have gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how institutions can be reimagined and reformed in order to give people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities.Drawing upon fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts the educational histories of individual students, tracking both their intellectual progress and the many obstacles they must face. Analyzing the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions--the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary--he makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States"--
Subjects: Bard College; Prisoners; Education, Higher; Prison administration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A summary of recommendations from the Seminar/workshop on Employment and Training Programs for Offenders and Exoffenders held May 22-25, 1978. by Seminar/workshop on Employment and Training Programs for Offenders and Ex-offenders(1978 :Nags Head, N.C.); North Carolina State University.North Carolina Employment and Training Program.;
Subjects: Pre-release programs for prisoners; Ex-convicts; Prisoners;
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Reading with Patrick : a teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship / by Kuo, Michelle,author.(CARDINAL)344365;
Part I. A raisin in the sun ; The free write ; The fire next time -- Part II. The death of Ivan Ilyich -- Part III. Crime and punishment ; The lion, the witch and the wardrobe ; He wishes for the cloths of heaven ; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass ; I have read everything on this paper (the guilty plea) ; To Paula in late spring -- Part IV. Easter morningRecently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and political awakening. Convinced she can make a difference in the lives of her teenaged students, Michelle Kuo puts her heart into her work, using quiet reading time and guided writing to foster a sense of self in students left behind by a broken school system. Though Michelle loses some students to gun violence and truancy, she is inspired by students such as Patrick. Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins to thrive under Michelle's exacting attention, rising to meet her rigorous expectations. However, after two years of teaching, Michelle feels pressure from her parents and the draw of opportunities outside the Delta, and leaves Arkansas to attend law school. Years later, on the eve of her graduation, she learns that Patrick has been jailed for murder. Feeling that she had left the Delta prematurely, and determined to fix her mistake, Michelle returns to Helena and resumes Patrick's education--even as he sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Every day for the next seven months they pore over classic novels, poems, and works of history. Little by little, Patrick grows into a confident, expressive writer and a dedicated reader galvanized by the works of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson, W. S. Merwin, and others. In her time reading with Patrick, Michelle is herself transformed, contending with the legacy of racism and the question of what the privileged owe to those with bleaker prospects.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Prisoners; Alternative schools; Prisoners; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 20
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Punished for dreaming : how school reform harms Black children and how we heal / by Love, Bettina L.,1979-author.(CARDINAL)856562;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-328) and index.Introduction -- Setting the stage : educational white rage -- Black children at risk -- Scraps -- No entrepreneur left behind -- Erasure -- Carceral inevitability -- Standardizing carcerality -- White philanthropy -- The trap of diversity, equity, and inclusion -- White people, save yourselves -- Let us celebrate -- A call for educational reparations.""I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream." -Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist. In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives. In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Educational change; Discrimination in education; School-to-prison pipeline; African American children;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 23
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Breaking chains, building futures : pathways to redemption, education, and excellence / by Andrisse, Stanley,author.; John Wiley & Sons,publisher.(CARDINAL)153984;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Systemic Issues -- Chapter 1: The Strength of Healed Wounds: From Trials to Triumph-Rewriting the Narrative of Justice and Purpose -- Chapter 2: Light To Life, One Mission, One Voice - A Story of Resilience and Advocacy -- Chapter 3: Lessons Beyond the Classroom: An Educator's Journey of Resilience, Redemption, and Purpose -- Chapter 4: Reentry Is Reinvention -- Part II: Resilience -- Chapter 5: Resilience and Perseverance Win -- Chapter 6: Journey to Liberating the Institutionalized Mind -- Chapter 7: It Takes a Village -- Chapter 8: A House Made of Ashes -- Part III: Education and Mentorship -- Chapter 9: Fallen -- Chapter 10: The Wall: Behind and Beyond - The Evolution of Phillip Alvin Jones -- Chapter 11: A Stage Worthy of Freedom -- Chapter 12: The Long Road Home."The book, authored by Dr. Stanley Andrisse, is a compilation of motivational and inspirational stories centered around twelve formerly incarcerated individuals whose lives underwent significant transformation through their encounters with Dr. Andrisse and participation in the Prison to Professionals (P2P) Scholars Program. Dr. Andrisse shares his personal journey from incarceration to becoming a successful scientist and the executive director of P2P, a nonprofit dedicated to aiding incarcerated individuals in pursuing higher education and achieving excellence. The co-authors collaborate with Dr. Andrisse to narrate their experiences, highlighting the impact of education and mentorship in reshaping their lives. Each author's chapter has a theme centered on a challenge they faced and overcame in their prison to professionals journey. Some of the themes include childhood sexual abuse, addiction, gun violence, life without parole, racial bias in sentencing, children of incarcerated parents, shackling of pregnant women, and more. The book serves as a source of inspiration, shedding light on the potential for positive change and success for those with or without a history of incarceration"--
Subjects: Ex-convicts; Ex-convicts; Mentoring.; Prisoners;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Reading with Patrick [sound recording] : a teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship / by Kuo, Michelle,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)344365;
Read by the author.As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African-American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle moved back to California; but Patrick began to lose his way, killing a man and ending up with a lengthy jail sentence. And that's when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, to read with him again.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Kuo, Michelle.; Teachers; Prisoners; Alternative schools; Prisoners; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim / by Gifford, Justin,1975-author.(CARDINAL)401759;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.Childhood -- Education -- Prison -- Chicago -- Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary -- On the road -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Final years."The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture. You can't understand contemporary black (and even American) culture without reckoning with Iceberg Slim and his many acolytes and imitators. Literature professor Justin Gifford has been researching the life and work of Robert Beck for a decade, culminating in Street Poison, a colorful and compassionate biography of one of the most complicated figures in twentieth-century literature. Drawing on a wealth of archival material--including FBI files, prison records, and interviews with Beck, his wife, and his daughters--Gifford explores the sexual trauma and racial violence Beck endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most infamous pimps of the 1940s and '50s. From pimping to penning his profoundly influential confessional autobiography, Pimp, to his involvement in radical politics, Gifford's biography illuminates the life and works of one of American literature's most unique renegades" -- provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992.; Beck, Robert.; African American authors; African Americans; Pimps;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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Wrong lanes have right turns : a pardoned man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline and what we can do to dismantle it / by Phillips, Michael(Pastor),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.My soul looks back and wonders -- The predator and the prey -- How are the children? -- Bitter seed -- Walking without purpose -- Crash -- Short money -- Tragedy interrupted -- Redemption and re-entry -- No success without struggle -- Right turns."The unforgettable true story of one man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline, how he reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate, and what his journey can teach us about turning the collateral damage in the lives of our youth into collateral hope"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Phillips, Michael (Pastor); African American clergy; Christian biography; Ex-convicts; African American boys; Racism in education; Prison-industrial complex; Educational change;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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