Hi Natalie,
 
I first became acquainted with your work when I read your piece in Women & Criminal Justice on women prisoners at the Dawn of the 21st Century.  I'm so glad you are out there writing about these issues.
 
Best,
Dominique
 
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If people are looking for good publications on women in prison, I have 2 that might be of interest:

1. The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers, 3rd Ed. (McGraw Hill, 2004) and

2. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Race, Class, Gender, and Culture. (Rutgers University, 2005).

Of course the first is more directly related to prisons; the second that deals with domestic violence should be made clear that this is so directly connected to the lives of women in prison and the contributors to this book are committed activists for the most part.

Best, Natalie Sokoloff

"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr. 




----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Chlup, Dominique" <dchlup at tamu.edu> 

Date: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:24 pm 

Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 536] Re: Barriers, etc 


> Hi Jill, 

> 

> I'm really excited to hear that you are doing graduate work in 

> this area. It's not a research study, but I'd recommend you take 

> a look at Schooling in a "Total Institution:" Critical 

> Perspectives on Prison Education, edited by Howard S. Davidson. 

> 

> And I promised in an earlier e-mail some resources on crime in 

> America, so I'll add those here as I think Jill you'll also find 

> them useful. I imagine that you'll be reading from several 

> literatures to frame your study (e.g., the literature on 

> rehabilitation, the literature on delinquency, the literature on 

> punishment in prisons, literature on corrections, literature on 

> criminal justice, etc.) 

> 

> Crime and Disrepute by John Hagan 

> The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America, by 

> Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, Miriam DeLone [I mentioned this one 

> in anothe r e-mail, here's the full title.] 

> Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by 

> Christian Parenti 

> Search and Destroy: Affrican-American Males in the Criminal 

> Justice System by Jerome G. Miller 

> 

> And Jill as you move forward in your work, feel free to e-mail me 

> privately. Even though I'm an asst. professor in TX, I have 

> graduate students (future colleagues) who are doing work in this 

> area and I love hearing their research progress. 

> 

> Best, 

> Dominique 

> dchlup at tamu.edu 

> 

> ________________________________ 

> 

> From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Andrea Wilder 

> Sent: Fri 2/16/2007 8:07 AM 

> To: The Poverty, Race,Women and Literacy Discussion List 

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 519] Re: Barriers, etc 

> 

> 

> Jill, 

> 

> 

> Try this: "Maternal Justice, Miriam Van Wate rs and the Female 

> Reform Tradition." 

> 

> Andrea 

> 

> 

> On Feb 16, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Esther Prins wrote: 

> 

> 

> This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it may be useful 

> nonetheless. Michelle Fine led a fascinating participatory 

> research project w/ women inmates in a college program. The women 

> were involved in collecting & analyzing data: 

> http://www.changingminds.ws/ 

> 

> Esther Prins 

> 

> At 11:20 PM 2/15/2007, you wrote: 

> 

> Hi again, 

> I am currently a graduate student focusing on adult and 

> correctional education. Before returning to school recently, I 

> taught in ABE/GED courses to incarcerated males at a county 

> correctional facility in Boston for several years. 

> My academic interest is in identifying 

> characteristics/practices of exceptional correctional educators. 

> I am also in terested in evaluating the feasiblity/effectiveness of 

> implementing a critical, collaborative pedagogy within correction 

> facilites. I will be conducting field research next fall on some 

> version of the above topic areas. 

> I am wondering if anyone has recommendations for 

> reputable research studies along similar lines. 

> I have come across some work through the Journal of 

> Correctional Education and other sources, but any further 

> suggestions/advice is much appreciated. 

> Thank you in advance, 

> Jill 

> -----Original Message----- 

> From: dchlup at tamu.edu 

> Sent: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 6:25 PM 

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 514] Re: Barriers, etc 

> 

> 

> Hi Andrea, 

> 

> I'm not currently teaching inmates this semester, but I 

> am working with 

> colleagues on developing a new teaching/research project, 

> so I'll 

> explain the plan fo r that project to give you a sense of 

> how I typically 

> structure my class and I can compare it a bit to work I 

> have done in the 

> past. This new project is for a federal women's prison 

> here in TX. It 

> is still in the designing and developing stages. The 

> prison is located 

> very close to where I live, which is a first for me. I 

> have been 

> involved with a jail program (NY) and state prisons (MA) 

> both involved 

> at least 40-90 minutes of commute time. This project has 

> the support of 

> the warden and Susan Chabot, the Education Administrator 

> of the Federal 

> Bureau of Prisons (Bill [Muth], I think this might have 

> been your old 

> job.) I've never worked with a project with such a high 

> level of prison 

> administration support. My colleague developed this 

> project 3 years 

> ago, and it got shelved by the old warden a t the prison. 

> The new warden 

> showed interest in the project, they contacted us, and 

> now there is much 

> support for us to get grant funding and make it happen. 

> 

> The class is designed to be a part of the parenting 

> education program at 

> the prison. Using a book club structure, women will be 

> using children's 

> literature to develop literacy skills and engage in a 

> series of 

> activities to positively impact the students' parenting 

> skills and 

> nurture family literacy efforts between women inmates and 

> their 

> children. Women will be both reading and writing 

> children's literature. 

> We hope to have women reading children's literature that 

> is age 

> appropriate for their children and aligned to their own 

> reading levels. 

> Hopefully (we still need Institutional Review Board 

> approval on all of 

> this) the women will have the opportunity to videotape 

> themselves 

> reading for their children and will be able to use 

> visiting time to meet 

> and read with their children. There is an onsite 

> Children's Visiting 

> Center. Two sections of the class will be offered and 

> team taught by 

> two instructors. We are anticipating 15-30 students in 

> each class. We 

> are also drawing from our community and connections here 

> to have guest 

> artists, including theater professionals, bookbinding 

> artists, and a 

> well-known children's book author visit the classes. 

> Four of us have 

> been actively involved in the planning and we are all 

> bringing unique 

> strengths to the design and development process since 

> this is both a 

> teaching and a research project. We will be assessing 

> parental beliefs 

> and practices, attitudes toward reading a nd writing, and 

> literacy levels 

> pre-and post the classes. 

> 

> In the past, my work has both in classrooms and one-on- 

> one. In the case 

> of one-on-one it was more tutoring and mentoring to 

> transition students 

> from their GED classroom into the prison college program. 

> And my 

> classes were literature and writing based, reading and 

> creative writing 

> classes that could be used for credit in the adult 

> education program, 

> but could also be taken just for the sake of taking. 

> 

> Anyway, I hope that gives you a sense of what I've been 

> up to and what I 

> hope to do. 

> 

> Best, 

> Dominique 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message----- 

> From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov 

> [ mailto:povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of 

> Andrea Wilder 

> Sent: Thursday, February 15 , 2007 2:59 PM 

> To: Women and Literacy Discussion List The Poverty Race 

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 512] Barriers, etc 

> 

> Dominique, I would be interested in knowing about the 

> content of your 

> classes, what exactly you do with your students and how 

> you structure a 

> class. How many students do you work with at a time? 

> 

> Thanks. 

> 

> Andrea 

> 

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