Working for justice : a handbook of prison education and activism / edited by Stephen John Hartnett, Eleanor Novek, Jennifer K. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education Collective.

Hartnett, Stephen John.

Novek, Eleanor.

Wood, Jennifer K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Education--United States.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Political activity--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism. Through life-changing programs in a dozen states (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin), PCARE works with prisoners, in prisons, and in communities to reclaim justice from the prison-industrial complex.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Working for Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration""; ""Part I. Working on the Inside: The Transformative Potential of Prison Education""; ""Chapter 1 Kings, Warriors, Magicians, and Lovers: Alternative Performances of Masculinity in Prison""; ""Chapter 2. Service-Learning in Prison Facilities: Interaction as a Source of Transformation""; ""Chapter 3. Writing Your Way to Freedom: Autobiography as Inquiry in Prison Writing Workshops""

""Part II. Working on the Outside: Building New Selves and Strong Communities""""Chapter 4. “Courtesy Incarceration�: Exploring Family Members� Experiences of Imprisonment""; ""Chapter 5. Serving Time by Coming Home: Communicating Hope through a Reentry Court""; ""Chapter 6. Life After Incarceration: Exploring Identity in Reentry Programs for Wome""; ""Part III. Working on the Media: Representations of Prisons and Prison Activism""; ""Chapter 7. Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education""

""Chapter 8. “Prisoners Rise, Rise, Rise!�: Hip Hop as a Ciceronian Approach to Prison Protest""""Part IV. Working on the Futures of Prison Activism""; ""Chapter 9. “A Fate Worse than Death�: Reform, Abolition, and Life without Parole in Anti�Death""; ""Chapter 10. “People Like Us�: A New Ethic of Prison Advocacy in Racialized America""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252094965

0252094964

OCLC:

844923017