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Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy And Higher Education In Prison,Used
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Winner, Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award 2019Doing Time, Writing Lives offers a muchneeded analysis of the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space thatdespite housing more than 2 million peopleremains nearly invisible to the general public. Through the examination of a collegeinprison program that promotes the belief that higher education in prison can reduce recidivism and improve life prospects for the incarcerated and their families, author Patrick W. Berry exposes not only incarcerated students hopes and dreams for their futures but also their anxieties about whether education will help them.Combining case studies and interviews with the authors own personal experience of teaching writing in prison, this book chronicles the attempts of incarcerated students to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. It challenges polarizing rhetoric often used to describe what literacy can and cannot deliver, suggesting more nuanced and ethical ways of understanding literacy and possibility in an age of mass incarceration.
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