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Wesleyan University (CT): Students Push for Prison Classes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Students Push for Prison Classes Jan. 30th, 2009 ? Vol. CXLV, No. 1 Wesleyan Argus By Jae Aron, Features Editor Students are asking the school to award prisoners academic credit. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON Students are asking the school to award prisoners academic credit. In his opening address at the College in Prison Symposium held last Monday, Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, Daniel Karpowitz, described a course he teaches on Dostoevsky?s ?Crime and Punishment? in which students study the relationship between law and literature. The catch? His classroom and his students are behind bars. ?The students are never called upon to reflect on themselves, but are called upon to do exactly the same thing as students at Bard College,? Karpowitz said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).