I believe image-conscious Apple Computer’s hastily retracted announcement on an outright ban forbidding workers with felony convictions from working on the construction of its massive new 2.8 million-square-foot Cupertino headquarters building does … [Read more...]
Huffington Post: Earning a Degree in Jail—Karl Marx, Aristotle and Strip Searches
Life as an inmate is a rough existence. For prisoners, being housed in a vastly negative environment, surrounded by the worst of the worst, going underfed, and being treated inhumanely becomes the norm. With all of the negative aspects associated … [Read more...]
SF Gate: San Quentin’s prison university gives inmates freedom to learn
Greta Gaul profiles the Prison University Project on SF Gate. Excerpt below: Thirteen students trickled into a classroom from the yard — blacks, Latinos, whites, Asians, old and young. They took their seats, and opened their textbooks, and U.S. … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Review of Books: Prison.edu—On the Most Effective, Underfunded College System in the US
Colin Asher writes in the Los Angeles Review of Books on the Prison University Project. Excerpt below: There is a college in California whose campus, if it can be called that, consists of a few portable trailers. Classes are also taught inside a … [Read more...]
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