Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? : Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project

• Tác giả: William Alexander
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 1970 to more than 50,000 by
• ISBN: 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration.
• ISBN: 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in
• ISBN-13: 978-0472051090
• ISBN-13: 978-0472071098
• ISBN: nps.8582521.0001.001
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 365.66 Services to prisoners
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (327 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 234620
• Chủ đề: 1. Penology & punishment; 2. Teaching of a specific subject

Tóm tắt

Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in