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…
Reading Leaders
Starting this Friday (if we have volunteers for Friday), we will have 1 or 2 reading leaders for each reading assignment due. Reading leaders are…
Writing to Tenacious Women in Prison
For your first writing assignment, you will draft and then send a letter to a woman writer in prison. There are dozens of prisoner pen-pal…
Wednesday’s Class
Welcome to our second class! This class is fully online — not in our classroom. You can complete the classwork at your own pace and…
Monday’s Class
Welcome to our first class! This class and Wednesday’s class are fully online — not in our classroom. (Our first in-person meeting is on Friday…