During our visit with Lori Stone, Outreach Director for the NC Innocence Project, we learned a lot about Jack’s case. We also learned that he…
Karla Baday, Exoneree, Talk on Tuesday 10/29 @ 11:45-12:45
A conversation among Karla Baday, NCIP attorneys, and SCU law students about Karla’s 17 years of wrongful incarceration. Where: Charney Hall, Panelli Courtroom When: October…
Close Reading
Close reading is the careful, sustained analysis of any text that focuses on significant details or patterns and that typically examines some aspect of the text’s…
Female Criminals Podcast
I just learned about “Female Criminals” the podcast. What do you think about it? Check out a few episodes. https://www.parcast.com/criminals “The true crime podcast where…
CA Private Prison Ban, article
From Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-prisons/california-set-to-end-private-prisons-and-immigrant-detention-camps-idUSKBN1WO2OZ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – America’s largest state prison system is moving to quit the practice of farming out inmates to lockups run…
American Prison Writing Archive Transcription Project
Go to the APWA website: http://apw.dhinitiative.org/. This week, we begin one of our major scholarly contributions this term. We will each become contributors to the…
Mapping Incarceration Near Us
Life often looks like a giant rose garden beneath a canopy of palm trees for those of us at SCU. This term, we will work…
Annotation for Critical Reading
Here’s my method when working with printed, bound books. (My method is slightly different when reading longer books online.) While I’m reading a text–let’s say…