Arts and Education in the Criminal Justice System

Alexander, Buzz and Marie-Crane Williams. Teaching the Arts Behind Bars. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet. New York: Grove Books, 2002.

Baun, N. and B. Brooke. Trading Books for Bars. Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 1994.

Coles, Robert. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination. New York: Mariner Books, 1990.

Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum Security Prison. CCNY and Women in Prison at the Bedford Hills Correctional Center. September 2001. Accessed September 6, 2004.

Chevigny, Bell Gale, ed. Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999.

Davidson, Howard S. Schooling in a "Total Institution:" Critical Perspectives on Prison Education. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1995.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Fraden, Rena. Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women. Columbia, S. Carolina: U of South Carolina P, 2001.

Franklin, H. Bruce. The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison. New York: Oxford UP, 1978.

Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. Prison Writing in 20th-Century America. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

Harlow, Barbara. Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1992.

Hopwood, Clive, ed. Free With Words: Writers in Prison. Manchester, U.K.: Bar None Books, 1999.

Jacobi, Tobi and Patricia O'Connor, eds. Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning and Community Literacy Special Issue Prison Literacies, Narratives and Community Connections. V. IV, 1, Winter 2004.

Knight, Etheridge. Poems from Prison. New York: Broadside Press, 1968.

Kornfield, Phyllis. Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1997.

Lamb, Wally. Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters. New York: Regan Books, 2003.

Martin, Dannie and Peter Y. Sussman. Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1993.

McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

McKeown, Lawrence. Out of Time: Irish Republican Prisoners Long Kesh 1972-2000. Dublin: Colour Books Ltd., 2001.

Diana Medlicott. Surviving the Prison Place: Narratives of Suicidal Prisoners. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2001.

Rierden, Andi. The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison. Amherst, Mass.: U of Massachusetts P, 1997.

Tannenbaum, Judith. Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2000.

Thompson, James. Prison Theater: Perspectives and Practices. London: Jessica Kingsley, 1996.

Thompson, James. Applied Theater: Bewilderment and Beyond (Stage and Screen Studies, V. V). London: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

Trounstine, Jean. Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women's Prison. U of Michigan P, 2003.