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Week of  November 13, 2016 – Special Populations 

To Stay on Track:  1) Work on your overall learning assessment (the final phase of the visual projects).     2) Know when your second meeting is scheduled. 

Dates/Deadlines

  • November 21-29 – Second Meetings
  • Friday, November 25th – No Class (Thanksgiving Break)
  • Friday, December 2nd, beginning of class – Visual Project’s Overall Learning Assessment due
  • Monday, December 12th – Last Day of Fall Classes

Preparatory Readings:

  • Hassine. Life Without Parole. — entirety.
  • Haas and Alpert. Dilemmas of Corrections. Chapters 13, 29-30. 
  • Documentary: “The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison.”   (to be shown in class)
  • Dawley. A Nation of Lords. pp. xi-99.

Lecture related links:

Concepts to be covered:

  • the mentally ill prisoner
  • the female prisoner 
  • the HIV/AIDS prisoner
  • the elderly prisoner 

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do this week’s assigned readings and view “The Farm.” Due: Monday, November 21st.

  1.  What are the unique challenges and problems when dealing with HIV/AIDS prisoners? What might be some possible solutions? Why. Incorporate the class materials into your answer. 
  2. With more and more inmates imprisoned for life, what are the major problems confronting the elderly prisoner? Why. And, how should such problems be addressed? Why. Incorporate “The Farm” into your answer.   
  3.  Imagine the combination of all four special populations characteristics – an elderly, mentally ill female prisoner with HIV/AIDS. If you were the prison warden, what would you do to address this combination of problems/characteristics?  Why.
  4. What do you think of the first half of A Nation of Lords? How does “theory, policy, practice” relate to the first part of this book?  

Going Beyond the Course Materials:

Note: If you found this week’s topic interesting, check out how you can go beyond the materials discussed.

  • Research “what works” for one of the special populations discussed in class. In other words, what are today’s most successful programs for this special population?
  • Examine the unique problems of incarcerated parents. 
  • Research the latest development in today’s geriatric prisons.
  • Recommended readings on female prisoners:
    • Wally Lamb. Couldn’t Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution.
    • Jennifer Gonnerman. Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.
    • Sandra Enos. Mothering from Inside.
    • Bell Gale Chevigny (ed). Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women’s Imprisonment. 
    • Lori Girshick. No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison.
    • Kathleen O’Shea. Women on the Row: Revelations from Both Sides of the Bars. 
  •  If you enjoyed reading Hassine’s Life Without Parole,  you might be interested in other prisoner autobiographies/biographies: 
    • Jack Henry Abbott. In the Belly of the Beast.
    • Leonard Peltier. Prison Writings.
    • Jarvis Jay Masters. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
    • Mumia Abu-Jamal.Live from Death Row.
    • Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Thirteenth Round.
    • Eldridge Cleaver. Soul on Ice.
    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 

Recommended Readings:

  • Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow. 
  •  John Irwin. The Warehouse Prison.
  • John Irwin. Prisons in Turmoil. 
  • John Irwin. The Imprisonment Binge.
    • Alfie Kohn. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community.
    • Alfie Kohn. Unconditional Parenting.

Email me at:  takata@uwp.edu

 

 

Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: November 10, 2016

 

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