“This is the first anthology about teaching in prison that is openly written from an abolitionist perspective. A valuable addition to the discourse.” - Victoria Law, author of "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

• Introduction, by Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot AlexanderPart One: PurposesRiotous Study: Black Studies, Academic Unfreedom, and Surveilled Pedagogy in Prison Education, by Jess A. GoldbergPower Mapping the Capitol: Notes on Abolitionist Pedagogy and Captive Study, by Meghan G. McDowell and Alison Rose ReedThe Sacred Writing Circle: Pedagogical Challenges of Creative Writing and Teaching among Incarcerated Women, by Anastazia SchmidOf Toothbrushes, Bread, and Beanstalks: Freedom and Kinship Inside, by Ann E. Green, Richard Sean Gross, and Rachel SwenartonRelational Methodologies and Decolonial Outcomes for the Prison Writing Classroom, by Anna PlemonsThe Brain Is Wider than the Sky, by David Bennett and Courtney ReinMeteorite, by Elizabeth HawesShakespeare with Survivors: Learning from Incarcerated Women in the Me Too Era, by Jenna DreierPlaywriting across the Walls as Abolitionist Practice, by Rivka EckertCracks in the Glass Ceiling, by C. Fausto CabreraRethinking the Hero Narrative of Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Creative Writing with and for Women at the County Jail, by Molly Dooley Appel and Shannon FreySpanish Co-instruction in Prison: A Dialogue on Language, Identity, and Pedagogy, by Paméla Cappas-Toro, Antonio Rosa, and Ken SmithPoetic Difference: How Emplaced Writing Influences Lives in Prison, by Seth MichelsonUnsettling Literacy: Querying the Rhetorics of Transformation, by Anne DalkePart Two: PracticesLiberators in Theory, Collaborators in Deed: Navigating the Constraints of the Prison Classroom, by R. Michael GosselinCollaborating to Reimagine Knowledge Sharing in the Prison Classroom, by James King and Amber ShieldsDisrupting the Time of Incarceration: Close Reading in a Justice-Oriented Prison Classroom, by Rachel BoccioReading and Writing between the Devil and the Deep Blue: The Appalachian Prison Book Project, by Katy Ryan, Valerie Surrett, and Rayna MomenNarrating Captivity, Imagining Justice: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Prison, by Laura E. CiolkowskiFrom a Public Defender Office to a Prison Classroom: Why I Teach Writing in Prison, by Patrick Filipe ConwayWriting Our Lives into the World, by Benjamin J. Hall, Rhiannon M. Cates, and Vicki L. ReitenauerErasure or Exploitation? Considering Questions in Prison Publications, by Sarah ShotlandSelf-Care as Ethical Practice for Teachers and Volunteers Working with Writers behind Bars, by Shelby D. Tuthill and Tobi JacobiNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is the first anthology about teaching in prison that is openly written from an abolitionist perspective. A valuable addition to the discourse.” - Victoria Law, author of "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

• Introduction, by Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot AlexanderPart One: PurposesRiotous Study: Black Studies, Academic Unfreedom, and Surveilled Pedagogy in Prison Education, by Jess A. GoldbergPower Mapping the Capitol: Notes on Abolitionist Pedagogy and Captive Study, by Meghan G. McDowell and Alison Rose ReedThe Sacred Writing Circle: Pedagogical Challenges of Creative Writing and Teaching among Incarcerated Women, by Anastazia SchmidOf Toothbrushes, Bread, and Beanstalks: Freedom and Kinship Inside, by Ann E. Green, Richard Sean Gross, and Rachel SwenartonRelational Methodologies and Decolonial Outcomes for the Prison Writing Classroom, by Anna PlemonsThe Brain Is Wider than the Sky, by David Bennett and Courtney ReinMeteorite, by Elizabeth HawesShakespeare with Survivors: Learning from Incarcerated Women in the Me Too Era, by Jenna DreierPlaywriting across the Walls as Abolitionist Practice, by Rivka EckertCracks in the Glass Ceiling, by C. Fausto CabreraRethinking the Hero Narrative of Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Creative Writing with and for Women at the County Jail, by Molly Dooley Appel and Shannon FreySpanish Co-instruction in Prison: A Dialogue on Language, Identity, and Pedagogy, by Paméla Cappas-Toro, Antonio Rosa, and Ken SmithPoetic Difference: How Emplaced Writing Influences Lives in Prison, by Seth MichelsonUnsettling Literacy: Querying the Rhetorics of Transformation, by Anne DalkePart Two: PracticesLiberators in Theory, Collaborators in Deed: Navigating the Constraints of the Prison Classroom, by R. Michael GosselinCollaborating to Reimagine Knowledge Sharing in the Prison Classroom, by James King and Amber ShieldsDisrupting the Time of Incarceration: Close Reading in a Justice-Oriented Prison Classroom, by Rachel BoccioReading and Writing between the Devil and the Deep Blue: The Appalachian Prison Book Project, by Katy Ryan, Valerie Surrett, and Rayna MomenNarrating Captivity, Imagining Justice: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Prison, by Laura E. CiolkowskiFrom a Public Defender Office to a Prison Classroom: Why I Teach Writing in Prison, by Patrick Filipe ConwayWriting Our Lives into the World, by Benjamin J. Hall, Rhiannon M. Cates, and Vicki L. ReitenauerErasure or Exploitation? Considering Questions in Prison Publications, by Sarah ShotlandSelf-Care as Ethical Practice for Teachers and Volunteers Working with Writers behind Bars, by Shelby D. Tuthill and Tobi JacobiNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is the first anthology about teaching in prison that is openly written from an abolitionist perspective. A valuable addition to the discourse.” - Victoria Law, author of "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

• Introduction, by Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot AlexanderPart One: PurposesRiotous Study: Black Studies, Academic Unfreedom, and Surveilled Pedagogy in Prison Education, by Jess A. GoldbergPower Mapping the Capitol: Notes on Abolitionist Pedagogy and Captive Study, by Meghan G. McDowell and Alison Rose ReedThe Sacred Writing Circle: Pedagogical Challenges of Creative Writing and Teaching among Incarcerated Women, by Anastazia SchmidOf Toothbrushes, Bread, and Beanstalks: Freedom and Kinship Inside, by Ann E. Green, Richard Sean Gross, and Rachel SwenartonRelational Methodologies and Decolonial Outcomes for the Prison Writing Classroom, by Anna PlemonsThe Brain Is Wider than the Sky, by David Bennett and Courtney ReinMeteorite, by Elizabeth HawesShakespeare with Survivors: Learning from Incarcerated Women in the Me Too Era, by Jenna DreierPlaywriting across the Walls as Abolitionist Practice, by Rivka EckertCracks in the Glass Ceiling, by C. Fausto CabreraRethinking the Hero Narrative of Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Creative Writing with and for Women at the County Jail, by Molly Dooley Appel and Shannon FreySpanish Co-instruction in Prison: A Dialogue on Language, Identity, and Pedagogy, by Paméla Cappas-Toro, Antonio Rosa, and Ken SmithPoetic Difference: How Emplaced Writing Influences Lives in Prison, by Seth MichelsonUnsettling Literacy: Querying the Rhetorics of Transformation, by Anne DalkePart Two: PracticesLiberators in Theory, Collaborators in Deed: Navigating the Constraints of the Prison Classroom, by R. Michael GosselinCollaborating to Reimagine Knowledge Sharing in the Prison Classroom, by James King and Amber ShieldsDisrupting the Time of Incarceration: Close Reading in a Justice-Oriented Prison Classroom, by Rachel BoccioReading and Writing between the Devil and the Deep Blue: The Appalachian Prison Book Project, by Katy Ryan, Valerie Surrett, and Rayna MomenNarrating Captivity, Imagining Justice: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Prison, by Laura E. CiolkowskiFrom a Public Defender Office to a Prison Classroom: Why I Teach Writing in Prison, by Patrick Filipe ConwayWriting Our Lives into the World, by Benjamin J. Hall, Rhiannon M. Cates, and Vicki L. ReitenauerErasure or Exploitation? Considering Questions in Prison Publications, by Sarah ShotlandSelf-Care as Ethical Practice for Teachers and Volunteers Working with Writers behind Bars, by Shelby D. Tuthill and Tobi JacobiNotes on ContributorsIndex