MEMBER BLOG TAG: the prison yard
| Monday, August 3, 2009 7:09PM | | | | The Prison Yard | Tags: Sing Sing, Prison Education, The Prison Yard
| | | When I watch shows like "Lockdown" or "Gangland" on television, the more than half of the inmates have bulging muscles and even more of them are covered with tatoos. This is far from what I experience teaching at Sing Sing, a maximum security prison. In manner and appearance, very little differentiates the inmates from those of people beyond the prison walls. Were they to encounter the prisoners on, say, a bus, most citizens would not hesitate a moment to sit down next to them. Are the shows, then, perhaps unconsciously, romanticizing prison life? Or do prisoners in the school differ from the norm?
But perhaps the biggest gap between the portrayals and my own experience is the prison yard. In documentaries the yard is... | | | | | |
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