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Masculinities, Attachment Theory and Transformative Learning: A Discussion of Some Theoretical Considerations for Developing an Emotionally Secure Teaching Praxis Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Damien Carberry
This paper situates education as an integral component of the overall prison rehabilitation process. The article discusses how an educational practitioner's knowledge of attachment theory and masculinities can be utilized to develop a secure methodological teaching environment in the classroom of a prison education unit and create a space where transformative learning can take place. The link between
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Evaluating the Efficacy of an Attachment-Informed Psychotherapeutic Parenting Program for Incarcerated Parents Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-08-23 N. Laura Kamptner
An attachment-based, psychotherapeutic parent education course was created for incarcerated mothers and fathers to improve their ability to provide positive parenting and a more stable home environment for their children. The current study assessed the effects of this parenting curriculum on parents’ tendencies to be abusive, their sense of efficacy and satisfaction as a parent, their psychological
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Toward a Decarceral Sexual Autonomy: Biopolitics and the Compounds of Projected Deviance in Carceral Space Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-08-08 Raechel Tiffe
Abstract This essay examines the rhetorical and structural divides between the “inside” and “outside” carceral world as they exist within the intersections of racialized state violence and biopolitics. It is also a reflection on my embodied experience, as a volunteer and activist, inside penal and correctional facilities, not in an attempt to center my “freeworld” body as more important than the embodied
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Service-Learning, the Arts, and Incarceration Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-07-24 Melanie Buffington, Courtnie N. Wolfgang, Tesni A. Stephen
This paper describes three different service-learning approaches the authors utilized in graduate art education students and incarcerated residents at a municipal jail facility. By situating our experiences within feminist theory, we analyze and unpack the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Through an analysis of teacher and student journal entries we came to see that our level of responsiveness
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Felons Transported to America and Australia Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-07-06 Thom Gehring
On January 26, 1788 “a fleet of eleven vessels carrying 1,030 people, including 548 male and 188 female convicts,” entered Sydney Harbor, Australia (Hughes, R. [1987]. The Fatal Shore. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 2). Most of these convicts were from London, and 431 of them were exiled or transported for minor theft (Hughes, 1987, p. 72), and were 35 years old or less. Typical among the crimes was
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Future Prisons and Personalized Trajectories Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-06-05 Cisca Joldersma
In the near future, imprisonment may no longer be the ultimate sanction. Imprisonment may be part of sanctions combined in an offender’s trajectory. These trajectories will become more and more personalized and tailor-made. A trajectory consists of different options: pre-trial options; front-door options; options during stay in prison; pre-release options; and aftercare options. With regard to future
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Book Review: Through the Wall by Annie Buckley and Matthew McMilon Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-05-10 Jonathan Cummins
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How Student Recruitment and Selection Can Impact Reentry Outcomes: Lessons from the Michigan Department of Corrections and Jackson College Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-05-10 Terrell A Blount, Todd Butler, Heather Gay
In 2013, the Vera Institute of Justice launched the Unlocking Potential: Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project (Pathways), a five-year multi-state demonstration project aiming to increase educational attainment and employment opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals by supporting an expansion of educational opportunities in prison. Corrections departments
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The ECHR Condemns Prison Overcrowding in Italy: The Total Reorganization of the Institution and the Social Reintegration of the Prisoner Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-05-01 Maria Garro, Federica Cirami
The contribution analyses the current Italian prison system, which has been called upon on to resolve its structural problems. The Council of Europe, in fact, in 2013 condemned Italy for inhuman treatment in its prisons. The principal accusation concerns the problem of overcrowding. The country has responded with solutions such as the application of the open system, which provides cells solely for
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Learning to be a Prison Educator Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-03-31 Nicole Patrie
This paper explores the process by which instructors learn to teach in prison. First, research on the challenges correctional educators encounter is explored. Second, an instructor training and mentorship program developed in Alberta, Canada will be presented, followed by a discussion of the importance on ongoing professional development that is specific to correctional educators.
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‘Learning to Be More Human’: Perspectives of Respect Within Prison Education in an Irish Young Offenders institution Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-03-07 Emmanuel O'Grady
Respect is fundamental aspect of how human beings relate to each other and, arguably, is a significant factor in the relationship between student and teacher. For incarcerated adults, the relationships they foster with their teachers (and by extension the respect or disrespect cultivated within it) often has a considerable impact on their educative development. This research explores how respect, and
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Democracy in a Singapore Prison, 1825-1873 Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-02-27 Thom Gehring
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The British acquired Singapore in 1825, and used it, in part, as a penal colony for convicts transported from India—much as they used Australia as penal colonies for convicts transported from England. The ticket-of-leave system (parole) was used to regulate prison routines
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Freedom is a State of Mind Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Annet Bakker
Artwork by Loco, an incarcerated artist at P.I. Neuwegein, The Netherlands.
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Calling Things by Their Name: Anand Rejuvenates the Mahá-Bhárat Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-01-30 Annet Bakker
RCS, one of the editors of P.I. Nieuwegein's newsletter, gives an overview of the work of a fellow prisoner in the jail, which consists of the translation and adaptation to modern times of the Maha-Bharat. This is a notable achievement in this prison's environment and will be of interest to all other prisoners and prison educators who might want to draw comparisons, conclusions, and other ideas about
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The Relationship Between Prisoners’ Academic Self-efficacy and Participation in Education, Previous Convictions, Sentence Length, and Portion of Sentence Served Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2017-01-09 Beate Buanes Roth, Arve Asbjornsen, Terje Manger
Prison education is an important aspect of adult education. The study investigated current participation in prison education, as well as previous convictions, sentence length, and the portion of sentence served as predictors of academic self-efficacy. Survey data derived from prisoners in all Norwegian prisons provided the empirical evidences for the analyses. A principal component analysis of a 40-item
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Doing Time and College: An Examination of Carceral Influences on Experiences in Postsecondary Correctional Education Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-12-14 Lindsey Livingston Runell
Imprisonment pains often accompany confinement to correctional institutions and can be manifested through controlled interactions that are an ingrained part of these contexts. Less is known about how related discomforts and deprivations might specifically impact participation in postsecondary correctional education. This paper will shed light on possible ways that encounters between incarcerated college
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All Aboard the Desistance Line: First Stop, Producing Prosocial Prison Attachments within an HIV Prison-Based Peer Program Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-09-12 Kimberly A. Collica-cox
This article explores the importance of social bonds in facilitating an investment in prosocial behavior amongst female prisoners working as HIV peer educators. Female prisoners can lack strong prosocial attachments to both individuals and institutions prior to incarceration. Absent this bond, little prevents the female prisoner from recidivating. Prison provides an opportunity to fashion new attachments
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Editor's Welcome for Volume 3, Issue 2 Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-08-08 Arve Egil Asbjørnsen
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Remarks on Makarenko (USSR) by Dewey (USA) Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-08-08 Thom Gehring
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Probably learning earlier about the work of Anton Makarenko from writer Maxim Gorky, philosopher and educator John Dewey went to visit the Soviet prison educator and prison reformer in 1928. Dewey believed “the Russians ‘are more akin to the American people than to any other
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Behold, she stands at the door: Reentry, black women and the black church Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-07-15 Kathryn V. Stanley
This paper examines the African American church’s response to the special problems of African American women who reenter the community post-incarceration. The first portion of the paper examines the impact of criminal justice policies on women of color and the attending problems of reentry which resulted. It then surveys the black church’s response to returning citizens, especially women. It concludes
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Breaking down barriers: Review of an Inside/Out prison exchange program in a jail setting, Part 1 Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-06-24 Tanja C Link
The traditional criminal justice curriculum typically covers the three c’s – cops, courts, and corrections. In addition, students can usually choose from a variety of discipline-related special topics courses to satisfy the requirements of their major or minor in criminal justice. However, what is missing from most curricula for future criminal justice professionals is face-to-face interaction with
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"How can you live without your kids?": Distancing from and embracing the stigma of “incarcerated mother" Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-05-02 Brittnie Aiello, Krista McQueeney
This article examines how incarcerated mothers constructed moral identities in the face of stigma. Analyzing data from participant observation and 83 in-depth interviews with incarcerated mothers, we show that mothers claimed moral identities by distancing from the stigma of incarceration and/or embracing the identity of incarcerated mothers. Utilizing these strategies, women challenged the stigma
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Mystery and contingency in correctional education Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-03-15 G. Walker
Citing the work of Maxine Greene, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Thom Gehring, this paper makes the argument that correctional educators should attempt to accept that they will never fully understand the lives and perspectives of their students. Noting that some of the questions correctional educators have about the lived experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students cannot be answered
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Précis of Downes, P. (2014) Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for System Change. Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-02-23 Paul Downes
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Editor's Welcome for Volume 3, Issue 1 Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-02-22 Arve Asbjørnsen
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Book Review: Access to Education in Europe Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-02-22 Cormac Behan
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Englishman Matthew Davenport Hill on an Anomalous Pro-Prison Reform Period In Britain Journal of Prison Education and Reentry Pub Date : 2016-02-18 Thom Gehring
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. For centuries, the English resisted spending tax money on prisons. As a result, North America was populated largely by transported persons who were in contact, or at risk of being in contact, with England’s criminal justice system. After the American Revolution, when that cost