In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.
Tag Archives: Prison
Reading Lit to Cope with Prison
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Reading Lit to Survive Prison
For Daniel Genis, books were a way of surviving 10 years in prison.
A Teacher, Lit, & a Jailed Student
In “Reading with Patrick,” English teacher Michelle Kuo works with a student in 8th grade and then later after he has killed a man. The story brings up questions about lit’s impact.
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Fighting Crime through the Classics
Reader Farida Bag sent me a link to an article from the London Guardian about literature being used to rehabilitate prisoners in Texas. The program, called Changing Lives through Literature (here’s the link to their website) has been racking up impressive results: Of the 597 who have completed the course in Brazoria County, Texas, between 1997 […]
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Shakespeare in the Prisons
As I am out of town this week, my colleagues have been loaning me articles they have written to share on the website. Here my colleague Beth Charlebois, our Shakespeare scholar, recounts as instance of literary impact at its most dramatic–in this instance, the effect of Shakespeare on inmates of a Missouri correctional institute. […]
