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Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.

Demonstrating the ways that higher education can intervene in…


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Combining first-hand stories from incarcerated students with those who teach them, I felt inspired by this book. In the hardest circumstances, people make meaning and maintain hope. Plus, the opening chapter is an alumnus of my program, the Emerson Prison Initiative. Congratulations, Alexander, on being a published offer several times over!

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