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ONLINE ARTICLES ABOUT CLTL
(March 3, 2009)
WBUR (Boston)’s program Here and Now features an interview with CLTL Co-Director Jean Trounstine.
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(March 1, 2009)
The New York Times‘ Leah Price profiles CLTL in the Sunday Book Review. Check out “Read a Book, Get out of Jail.”
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(Spring 2008)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Alumni magazine features a detailed look at CLTL
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(Fall 2006)
Read MassHumanities’ interview with Bob Waxler and Jean Trounstine, “Fifteen Years of Changing Lives Through Literature”
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(Fall 2006)
Take a look at Taylor Stoehr’s article School on Probation: Teaching that Changes Lives in the NEA Higher Education Journal
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(August 21, 2005)
The Boston Globe’s Kathy McCabe writes about Judge Joseph Dever’s contribution to CLTL in the article “Judge who went by the book looks forward to a new chapter.”
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(March 15, 2005)
Library Journal discusses two CLTL facilitators in their article Partners in Anticrime: Kathy McLellan and Tricia Suellentrop
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(Fall 2003)
Read Fordham Magazine’s article, Reading Sentences: Judge Joseph Dever and Changing Lives Through Literature (PDF file)
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(October 2002)
UMass Boston’s University Reporter writes about CLTL facilitator Taylor Stoehr in English Professor Changes Probationers’ Lives Through Literature
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(March 31, 2002)
Read Susan Major’s article on CLTL in Counselor Magazine, the Magazine for Addiction Professionals
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(January 11, 2001)
Take a look at Elizabeth Mehren’s article “For These Female Offenders, It’s Read or Do Time” in the Los Angeles Times.
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(March 2000)
Wendy Robertson and Avril Joy write about their experiences visiting CLTL sessions in The Challenge of Radical Sentencing: Erasing the Chasm Between the Bench and the Dock
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(1997)
Read William Bole’s article “Novel Approach to Sentencing Has Criminals Hitting the Books.”
WHAT BLOGGERS ARE SAYING ABOUT CLTL
(March 2, 2009)
Marks in the Margin: “Read a Book–Change Your Life”
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(March 2, 2009)
Green Mountain Barrister Blog : “Literature Group for Offenders”
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(March 1, 2009)
Public Criminology: “Literature as a Lifeline”
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(March 1, 2009)
the loveART blog: “in other words”
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(March 1, 2009)
Louise Marley: ”Books, or the Big House?
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(February 28, 2009)
Recycled Minds: Book Clubs vs. Jail Sentences
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(February 27, 2009)
Office of Scholarly and Literary Publications at Georgetown University : “Reading to earn freedom”
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(August 24, 2008)
On Purpose: Deliberation on the Purpose and Significance of the Arts and the Humanities talks about CLTL in their post “Bibliotherapy: Literature as Rehabilitation.”
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(August 21, 2008)
Keith Oatley from OnFiction mentions CLTL in his post “Research Bulletin: Differences in Empathy”
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(June 25, 2008)
Kerri Price writes about CLTL on I Love Libraries, the American Library Association blog.
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(May 29, 2008)
Social Capital Blog mentions CLTL in their post “The pen really is mightier than the sword.”
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(May 23, 2008)
Keith Oatley from OnFiction talks about CLTL
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(January 31, 2008)
Denise at the NewPages Blog posted about CLTL in her post “Jail or Read: Changing Lives Through Literature.”
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(October 24, 2007)
Donna at the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, Kansas reports on Bob Waxler’s visit
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(December 11, 2005)
Crime & Federalism talks about CLTL and the power of literature to reform lives
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(November 30, 2005)
Shirah at Unbossed discusses CLTL as an alternative to faith-based rehabilitation programs.
UMASS DARTMOUTH’S PRESS RELEASES ON CLTL
(February 23. 2009)
Changing Lives Through Literature launches new blog “Changing Lives, Changing Minds”
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(July 17, 2008)
UMass Dartmouth’s Changing Lives Through Literature Program Receives Funding
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(March 19, 2007)
Changing Lives Through Literature program receives $20,000 grant from Coolidge Family Fund of the Boston Foundation
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(August 17, 2006)
Changing Lives Through Literature program receives $100,000 from state legislature
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(November 3, 2005)
Changing Lives Through Literature subject of new book
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(September 12, 2005)
Changing Lives Through Literature Included in State Budget
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(February 26, 2004)
Board Of Higher Education Presents Excellence Award To “Changing Lives Through Literature“
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(May 14, 2003)
NEH awards Changing Lives Through Literature at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth $200,000
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