Unlocking Minds
in Lockup
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir
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Education inside prison is more than a door-opener for offenders—it’s the path to a successful return to family, community and social responsibility.
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Unlocking Minds in Lockup gives readers an Inside View of convicted felons at work to change their lives. Readers see and hear adult women and men inside as they confront their behaviors and attitudes, and do the work needed to rethink their choices.
This book is especially insightful because the classes where readers see offenders working to change are focused on parenting, family relationships and history, personal and social responsibility and behavior management. Inmate students learn through applying critical thinking and reasoning concepts to their own lives. They engage in open discussion, reach out to their families—especially their children—and reexamine their roles and responsibilities in the social order.
The author’s own self-revelation and her growing determination to learn what offender students needed and then provide it, is shown in this statement: I’d never before met anyone who worked in prison, never known anyone sentenced to do time, never given prison or inmates, or their interactions, much thought. That made me a rather typical American.
Typical Americans are alarmed at the financial cost of mass incarceration, now over $80-billion per year and rising. But the human cost is equally and possibly more damaging to our society. This work will take you along with the author on her journey from community college instructor to correctional educator determined to help incarcerated offenders learn how to help themselves and thus their families and the greater society in the process.
