Posted in CLTL, incarceration alternatives, literature, reading, teaching, tagged CLTL, education, reading, UMass Dartmouth on October 21, 2009 | 43 Comments »
Brooke Joseph is a graduate student in education at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She has a bachelor’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences with a concentration in Sociology and Elementary Education.
In a recent interview with Professor Robert P. Waxler, co-founder of the Changing Lives through Literature (CLTL) program, I focused on finding out how CLTL [...]
Posted in fiction, literature, reading, teaching, tagged identity, reading, Robert Cormier on October 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Robert LeBlanc is a Ph.D. candidate in literature at the University of Rhode Island. His dissertation research focuses on notions of publicness and subjectivity in Christian leftist texts. He has taught writing and literature courses at the college level.
I suppose I became an active reader at a fairly young age, and I remember looking out [...]
Posted in CLTL, literature, poetry, reading, teaching, tagged change, education, literacy, Tillie Olsen, transformation on October 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Erin Royston Battat is a Lecturer in the History & Literature program at Harvard University. She taught the CLTL women’s class in Dorchester in Spring 2009.
When reading literature, we expect change to happen. Change is what drives the plot. Literary terms we learn in high school teach us to look for change, and to [...]
Posted in CLTL, criminal justice, ethics, teaching, tagged AA, compassion, reaching out, sobriety on September 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While studying for the ministry, David G. Sarles began substitute teaching in the New Haven public schools. He began running also then, up and down East Rock, and has been running more or less since then. But his running pales in comparison to those inmates who circle prison yards thousands of times to compete in [...]
Posted in CLTL, bibliotherapy, criminal justice, reading, tagged CLTL, Dorchester courthouse, reading, violence, women on September 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Allan McDougall is a graduate student from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Allan is a staunch believer in language as social action, with a focus on reading and writing. Allan is currently writing his MA thesis on Changing Lives Through Literature, and writes about professional and academic issues on his blog: allanmcdougall.wordpress.com.
This essay [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gangs, justice, juvenile, poverty, racism, street, youth on July 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
John Hagedorn is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His most recent book is A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture.
We read every day about the arrest of gang members or statements by police that some bust “crippled” the local gang. Zero tolerance policies in schools and communities have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Flurije Salihu is a PhD candidate and instructor at Arizona State University currently researching New Media and terrorism. She is currently reading Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series during her summer “vacation” and is waiting anxiously for the next Charlaine Harris book.
Like many of the other contributors to this blog, I’ve had a long and prosperous [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out part one of Benjamin Chambers’ article on CLTL over on the Reclaiming Futures blog.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Jamie J. Fader
Earlier this month, the nation was shocked to learn that two juvenile judges in Pennsylvania had been found guilty of taking $2.6 million in kickbacks from privately-run detention facilities in exchange for sending adolescent “customers” their way. Hundreds of young people who went before these judges were remanded to facilities for minor [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re off for the holiday and will bring you a new post on Saturday, December 27th.
In the meantime, why not take another look at the discussions happening on some of December’s posts?
Criminal Sentencing: Retribution or Redemption? by Larry Jablecki
Lessons in the Real Cost of Prisons by Jordan Beltran Gonzales
CLTL Juvenile Programs: What They’re Up Against [...]
