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Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women

Author : Melanie N. Burdick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615241
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women written by Melanie N. Burdick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women: Sentences and Sponsors, Melanie N. Burdick uses narrative research to elucidate the literacy experiences of formerly incarcerated women and how literacy has affected their lives, both while incarcerated and while transitioning back into society. Using Deborah Brandt’s theory of literacy sponsorship (1998), Burdick explores both the mass incarceration of women and their access to literacy as feminist and social justice issues. While reading and writing in prison is often romanticized through caricatures of incarcerated people who become enlightened and reformed, Burdick targets these romanticized views and criticizes their controlling and harmful effects. This book shines a light on the personal and political ramifications of literacy experiences in women’s lives as they grow up in families and schools, move through the prison system, and transition back into society and higher education, arguing that literacy is politically situated and that transitioning out of prison is a complex process marked by literate acts that are dependent upon constructive literacy sponsorship.

Interrupted Life

Author : Rickie Solinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520252497
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Interrupted Life written by Rickie Solinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new."--Mona Danner, PhD Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice

The Story Within Us

Author : Megan Sweeney
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094255
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Story Within Us written by Megan Sweeney and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features in-depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls. The women share powerful stories about their complex and diverse efforts to negotiate difficult relationships, exercise agency in restrictive circumstances, and find meaning and beauty in the midst of pain. Their shared emphases on abuse, poverty, addiction, and mental illness illuminate the pathways that lead many women to prison and suggest possibilities for addressing the profound social problems that fuel crime. Framing the narratives within an analytic introduction and reflective afterword, Megan Sweeney highlights the crucial intellectual work that the incarcerated women perform despite myriad restrictions on reading and education in U.S. prisons. These women use the limited reading materials available to them as sources of guidance and support and as tools for self-reflection and self-education. Through their creative engagements with books, the women learn to reframe their own life stories, situate their experiences in relation to broader social patterns, deepen their understanding of others, experiment with new ways of being, and maintain a sense of connection with their fellow citizens on both sides of the prison fence.

Girl Time

Author : Maisha T. Winn
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807778346
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Girl Time written by Maisha T. Winn and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original account is based on the author’s experiences with incarcerated girls participating in Girl Time, a program created by a theatre company that conducts playwriting and performance workshops in youth detention centers. In addition to examining the lives of these and other formerly incarcerated girls, Girl Time shares the stories of educators who dare to teach children who have been “thrown away” by their schools and society. The girls, primarily African American teens, write their own plays, learn ensemble-building techniques, explore societal themes, and engage in self analysis as they prepare for a final performance. The book describes some of the girls and their experiences in the program, examines the implications of the school-to-prison pipeline, and offers ways for young girls to avoid incarceration. Readers will learn how the lived experiences of incarcerated girls can inform their teaching in public school classrooms and the teaching of literacy as a civil and human right. “Winn brings to mind theories of play and performance that rarely enter the professional preparation for teachers at the secondary level.” —Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University “In the brilliant hands of Maisha T. Winn, Girl Time harvests seeds and stories about girls living in juvenile settings. . . . Penned in the ink of love, awe, despair, and dignity, the volume swings between documentary and possibility.” —From the Afterword by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY

Writing My Wrongs

Author : Shaka Senghor
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1101907312
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Writing My Wrongs written by Shaka Senghor and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel, and beatings from his mother worsened, which sent him on a downward spiral. He ran away from home, turned to drug dealing to survive, and ended up in prison for murder at the age of nineteen, full of anger and despair. Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next. During his nineteen-year incarceration, seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others—tools he used to confront the demons of his past, forgive the people who hurt him, and begin atoning for the wrongs he had committed. Upon his release at age thirty-eight, Senghor became an activist and mentor to young men and women facing circumstances like his. His work in the community and the courage to share his story led him to fellowships at the MIT Media Lab and the Kellogg Foundation and invitations to speak at events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. In equal turns, Writing My Wrongs is a page-turning portrait of life in the shadow of poverty, violence, and fear; an unforgettable story of redemption; and a compelling witness to our country’s need for rethinking its approach to crime, prison, and the men and women sent there.

Doing Mothering from Prison

Author : Betty Chamness Trost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Doing Mothering from Prison written by Betty Chamness Trost and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualitative research was conducted at a Midwestern state women's prison to explore how six incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women created their mothering subjectivities prior to their imprisonment. It also investigated how their mothering subjectivities were affected by their experiences in the prison's intervention programs specifically with the Storybook Project of Iowa: a mother-child support program that focused on literacy. This feminist narrative research explored how prison intervention programs, when coupled with the mother-child support project, transformed the women's understandings of themselves and their mothering. This transformation was aided by the women's self-reflective use of narrative through a series of three interviews. The study has implications for programming in women's prisons, advocating the use of intervention programs along with mother-child support literacy programs. Through their experiences with these programs the incarcerated mothers rebuilt or nurtured relationships with their children, connected with family members caring for their children, improved their literacy skills and those of their children, reconsidered their mothering identity and improved their perception of self, and through interactions with the program's volunteers acknowledged the community's support of them and their children. In addition this study has implications for reducing recidivism of incarcerated mothers through the women's improved relationships with their children and family members.

Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons

Author : Sheila Smith McKoy
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603295925
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons written by Sheila Smith McKoy and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the work of Malcolm X, Angela Y. Davis, and others has made clear, education in prison has enabled people to rethink systems of oppression. Courses in reading and writing help incarcerated students feel a sense of community, examine the past and present, and imagine a better future. Yet incarcerated students often lack the resources, materials, information, and opportunity to pursue their coursework, and training is not always available for those who teach incarcerated students. This volume will aid both new and experienced instructors by providing strategies for developing courses, for creating supportive learning environments, and for presenting and publishing incarcerated students' scholarly and creative work. It also suggests approaches to self-care designed to help instructors sustain their work. Essays incorporate the perspectives of both incarcerated and nonincarcerated teachers and students, centering critical prison studies scholarship and abolitionist perspectives. This volume contains discussion of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row, Marita Bonner's The Purple Flower, Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Othello.

Inside This Place, Not of It

Author : Ayelet Waldman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786632306
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Inside This Place, Not of It written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.

Entry Lessons

Author : Jorja Leap
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807022888
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Entry Lessons written by Jorja Leap and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A call to action … A reminder of the beautiful resilience of formerly incarcerated women and a celebration of all that they have to offer.” —Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms. Burton and founder of A New Way of Life Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families Recent reports show that women make up the fastest-growing population within the United States’ criminal justice system. And yet, despite necessary conversations about incarceration and prison abolition, their stories of abuse, neglect, poverty, and family separation often go untold. Now, through immersive storytelling and expert analysis of women’s lives after prison, anthropologist Jorja Leap explores their journeys into, through, and beyond the jail cell. In these pages, you’ll meet women like: –Ivy and Janet, accused of murder, whose intertwined stories of childhood harm, domestic abuse, and gang violence unfold throughout the book –Denise, who confronts the lasting impact of her childhood sexual trauma as she struggles with relationships and the realities of homelessness –Rosa, a survivor of sex trafficking whose relationship with her mother—her trafficker—is fraught with conflicting feelings she works to resolve –Carmen, whose search for love ultimately endangers not just her life but also the lives of her children –Clara, who survived placement in the child welfare system only to experience having her own children sent to foster care –Angela and Ronnie, two women navigating the complexities of sexuality and queerness in and out of prison Leap chisels away at superficial narratives to unearth pasts rife with struggle and oppression. She reveals the sharp edges of reentry and the wounds suffered by these women and their families, exposing a cycle of trauma that powers the revolving door of reentry and reincarceration. And, still, Entry Lessons is a book of hope just as much as it is of pain. Leap calls for systemic change through the development of meaningful reentry programs and policies that will have a lasting, life-changing impact on women as they rebuild their lives and especially as they are able to reclaim their children.

Gifts from the Dark

Author : Joni Schwartz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149859171X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Gifts from the Dark written by Joni Schwartz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience argues that we have much to learn from those who have been and are in prison. Schwartz and Chaney profile the contributions of literary giants, social activists, entrepreneurs, and other talented individuals who, despite the disorienting dilemma of incarceration, are models of adult transformative learning that positively impact the world. The authors interweave narratives with both qualitative and quantitative research references to analyze the role of solitude, writing, non-verbal communication; race and gender; physical exercise; education; technology; family and parenting; and the need to “give back” that precipitate transformative learning. The prison cell becomes a counterspace of metamorphosis. In focusing upon how men and women have chosen the worst moments of their lives as a baseline not to define, but to refine themselves, Gifts from the Dark promises to forever alter the limited mindset of incarceration as a solely one-dimensional, deficit event.

The Literacy Education of Federally Incarcerated Women

Author : Susan Linda Selme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Literacy Education of Federally Incarcerated Women written by Susan Linda Selme and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doing Time, Writing Lives

Author : Patrick W. Berry
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336375
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Doing Time, Writing Lives written by Patrick W. Berry and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that - despite housing more than 2.2 million people -remains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a college-in-prison program that promotes the belief that higher education in prison can reduce recidivism and improve life prospects for the incarcerated and their families, author Patrick W. Berry exposes not only incarcerated students' hopes and dreams for their futures but also their anxieties about whether education will help them. Beginning by exploring the need to move beyond narratives of hope when discussing literacy initiatives within prisons, Berry then illustrates how teachers and students frequently hold on to different beliefs about literacy and its power in the world. After discussing the possibilities and limitations of professional writing courses in prisons, the author argues that we need to pay greater attention to teachers and their motivations in prison education initiatives. Finally, he offers a case study of one formerly imprisoned student who uses writing in his current life and how this does (and does not) connect with what he learned in his prison education program. Combining case studies and interviews with the author's own personal experiences teaching writing in prison, Doing Time, Writing Lives chronicles how incarcerated students attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. It challenges polarizing rhetoric often used to describe what literacy can and cannot deliver, suggesting more nuanced and ethical ways of understanding literacy and possibility in an age of mass incarceration.

Women, Writing, and Prison

Author : Tobi Jacobi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475808240
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Women, Writing, and Prison written by Tobi Jacobi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.S. prison industry. The book explores in multiple ways, the role of writing in carceral settings, including material realities, ethics, and social justice. It is a book about the power of writing as well as its limits. It is a book that celebrates and critiques, challenges, and reveals. It is a book that, like the writing of incarcerated women, repays careful reading.

Reading is My Window

Author : Megan Sweeney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833525
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Reading is My Window written by Megan Sweeney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.

Entry Lessons

Author : Jorja Leap
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807022888
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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In the Belly of the Beast

Author : Jack Henry Abbott
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679732373
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book In the Belly of the Beast written by Jack Henry Abbott and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-01-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare.

"I Am Just Asking for a Chance to Prove Myself"

Author : Tiffany Tiberi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book "I Am Just Asking for a Chance to Prove Myself" written by Tiffany Tiberi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incarceration is characterized as confinement of an individual, particularly in a jail or prison correctional facility. The rate of incarceration in the United States has risen consistently in the past two decades with the rate of incarcerated females rising faster than the rate of male inmates. Incarcerated women are unique with regards to racial characteristics, types of offenses committed, mental health and substance abuse disorders, trauma history, medical health problems, and pregnancy and motherhood experiences. As a result, incarcerated women benefit from gender-specific health and social services during incarceration and upon release. Incarcerated women also face many challenges upon re-entry into their communities. While help-seeking patterns of diverse groups have been addressed in the literature, little is known about the help-seeking experiences of formerly incarcerated women as they re-enter their communities. This study used a phenomenological qualitative research design using focused dyadic interviewing to better understand the experiences of female ex-offenders as they seek support in their communities upon release. Thirty-four predominantly African American female ex-offenders living in an urban community were recruited and interviewed. Several themes were prominent across interviews. Women described several barriers to services in the community such as lack of resources, feelings of embarrassment or shame. And most frequently, the feeling that they did not need help. Perceived discrimination based on their incarceration histories within their communities and within their kinship networks was also prevalent across interviews. Women also named a number of positive experiences when engaged in formal help-seeking efforts such as learning new skills or changing some aspects of their lives. Participants voiced several desired changes that they would like to see in their communities such as gender specific services that are collaborative and treat clients with dignity and respect, and in their kinship networks such as an increase in emotional support and acceptance from close others. In response to such needs, programming, policy, and community recommendations are also discussed as they pertain to female ex-offenders living in the community.