开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks
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所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: HamiltonX 授课老师： Doran Larson |
课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/american-prison-witness-understanding-u-hamiltonx-eng142x
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The U.S. incarcerates a larger number and percentage of its own citizens than any nation on earth: larger than China, Russia, Cuba, or Iran. American ex-offenders are arrested again at a rate of 67% within three years, and 75% within five years of release. This course looks inside U.S. prisons, through the history of literary witness born by incarcerated people over the past 100 years. This history, valuable in its own right, will help us to understand the mass-scale prison’s rise, its day-to-day practices, and why it fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation. Through prison witness, we may hope to begin to understand what is needed to make the U.S. prison a more socially constructive institution. Among other texts, we will read and discuss Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, The (online) American Prison Writing Archive, and come to a sense of the moral weight that prison witness must carry in any truly democratic debate on the criminal justice system.
