Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prelude: Education: Life or Death
1. A Tough Sell: Education and Incarceration
2. The Geography of Incarceration: The Glass Bubble in the Big House
3. Of Freire and Frost: Reading the World Behind Bars
4. "No Hugs for Thugs": Surveillance and Control
5. "I Write Myself Out of Prison": Rewriting the Self
6. Writing in the Dark: Profiles of Incarcerated Learners
7. "What If I Had Started to Write in High School?": Interrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
8. "Songs from the Genius Child": Words No Bars Can Hold
Epilogue: Thoughts Beyond the Bars: The Dark and the Light
References
Selections of Writing by Incarcerated Writers
Index