Week 143: "Essay on Reentry" by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Teaching Bullets into Bells Behind Bars
I've been teaching College Reading and Writing--intro comp--in the Suffolk County House of Correction since November. I'm posting our lesson plans as I go. . . since we got copies of Bullets into Bells I've been using it but I'll post all the lessons. I taught in Massachusetts prisons for 15 years, through Boston University's prison education program. People incarcerated in prisons have longer sentences, and can sign up for a traditional semester, just like a college student on campus. One of the challenges of teaching incarcerated folks with shorter sentences is that it doesn't make sense to follow a normal academic schedule. I teach a women's section and a men's section of this class in the jail, and I've had 54 students so far. Some people were only present for a few weeks. A couple have completed all the work, and I'm working on getting them college credit. One new student came for the first time last class. Instead of using my u...
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