[PDF] Literacy Behind Prison Walls eBook

Author : Karl Haigler
Publisher : Center
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This is one of a series of reports that look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. This report provides an in-depth look at the literacy skills of prisoners incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Contents: -Executive Summary Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Skills of America's Prisoners Chapter 3: Experiences Before Prison Chapter 4: Experiences Unique to Prison Life Chapter 5: Recidivism and Literacy Chapter 6: Comparing Literacy Practices and Self-Perceptions of the Prison and Household Populations.

Author : Karl Haigler
Publisher : Center
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This is one of a series of reports that look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. This report provides an in-depth look at the literacy skills of prisoners incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Contents: -Executive Summary Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Skills of America's Prisoners Chapter 3: Experiences Before Prison Chapter 4: Experiences Unique to Prison Life Chapter 5: Recidivism and Literacy Chapter 6: Comparing Literacy Practices and Self-Perceptions of the Prison and Household Populations.

Author : Deborah Appleman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 0393713687

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Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars. Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir, and fiction, the students in Appleman’s classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. The students’ work, through which they probe and develop their identities as readers and writers, illuminates the transformative power of literacy. Appleman argues for the importance of educating the incarcerated, and explores ways to interrupt the increasingly common journey from urban schools to our nation’s prisons. From the sobering endpoint of what scholars have called the “school to prison pipeline,” she draws insight from the narratives and experiences of those who have traveled it.

Author : Mary E. Styslinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 144226926X

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Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices that have been successfully used with those incarcerated around the nation. These include: creating graphic novels, book clubs, writing about gang life, reading buddies, urban literature developing a writing workshop establishing a school library

Author : Lorenzo Steele, Jr.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2017-02-04
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ISBN : 9781540459978

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Behind These Prison Walls "Life Inside Rikers Island" gives a photographic journey into the nation's most violent adolescent jail on Rikers Island. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist gives viewers a first-hand account into the horrors and dangers officers and detainees were subjected to daily. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist Lorenzo Steele Jr. uses art as a medium to change habits and behaviors that can lead to criminal activity. Lorenzo served 12 years as an officer on Rikers Island (1987-1999) and his mission through the arts is to deter youth from making choices and decisions that can have a devastating effect on their lives. It's an educational book that's grade appropriate and can be used in public-schools, churches, colleges and art galleries.

Author : D. Neletha Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781945873218

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Education is basically the SOUL of a community that is shared and passed from one generation to another. If someone is going down the wrong path it is education that will and should turn them around. In her book "Education for the SOUL Behind the Prison Walls", the Hon. D. Neletha Butterfield, M.B.E., J.P. highlights herstory, involvement, encouragement, teachings and experience in educating the inmates of the correctional facilities in Bermuda - The Senior Training School, The Female Prison (now Co-Ed Correctional Facility, Prison Farm and Casemates Prison (now Westgate Correctional Facility) from computer studies to African education studies and from mathematics and reading to the G.E.D. programme (high school diploma). She ventured on this prison educational journey in 1984 on the request of Mr. Edwin C. Wilson, first Educational Officer with Her Majesty's Prison, as well as a former Commissioner of Prisons. Mr. Wilson in his wisdom contacted her and asked if she can assist in teaching at the prison facilities with her G.E.D. and computer programmes. She accepted and taught for approximately 20 years successfully assisting one hundred and fifty inmates in receiving their GED (high school diplomas) and over three hundred inmates in receiving basic educational skills and computer training. As the founder of the General Education Development (GED) programme, the computer programme and the African studies programme in the correctional facilities, in 1985 Butterfield held the first graduation ceremony in the prisons and through her vision, the educational programmes and graduation ceremony continues to flourish today.In this book you will read appreciation messages, poems and letters from inmates, graduation programmes, letters of congratulations and thanks from the legislature and the community, newspaper articles and more on her role as the co-founder of Prison Fellowship, Chairman of the Treatment of Offenders Board and her account of an instructors' day in the prison. She currently volunteers her educational services as she believes giving back is the key to her success behind the prison walls."Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment." ― Nelson Mandela

Author : Patrick W. Berry
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 0809336375

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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.