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Two and a Half Hours a Week. An Inside/Out Class at the Hampshire County (MA) Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Two and a Half Hours a Week An Inside/Out Class at the Hampshire County (MA) Jail By Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne '01 Greg was flipping through pages of class readings. He was looking for a specific example to support his point about changing gender roles among Cambodian refugees fleeing the Pol Pot regime. He flipped one page, then another and another. ?I can?t find it right now,? he told a classmate. ?I don?t have a highlighter.... I?d like to have one, a couple different highlighters, so I could...? His voice trailed off as he mimed the act of marking up the passages by topic. Greg had pored over the readings; every page bore the penciled-in marginalia of a determined student. But he isn?t just any Amherst student, and the giveaway was that he had only a pencil at his disposal...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 04, 2008 (boomark / email).