Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Booked: Seminar Explores American Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Booked: Seminar Explores American Prisons by Nora Grenfell '12 Hamilton College (NY) December 23, 2008 During the fall semester, a new seminar was offered by Hamilton's English Department. "Booked: Prison Writing," taught by Associate Professor Doran Larson, offered a survey of literature composed behind bars. The authors ranged from Socrates to Oscar to post-colonial, developing world authors. The class also included a specialized field trip: the opportunity to observe inmates at maximum-security Attica Prison in a creative writing class. Two years ago Larson visited Attica prison with a discussion group. After this initial experience, he spent six weeks of his leave from 2007-2008 in the Library of Congress reading solely prison literature...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).