October 19, 2015 - 10:40
I'd originally planned for us to spend the next two weeks reading some of the history of Quaker involvement in prison reform. Am realizing now that this time will be better spent on your pursuing your research projects and finding containers for presenting what you have learned. So here's a record of the reading I'd selected, for the archive and also because some of you may find it particularly useful for your individual-or-collective projects:
Jennifer Graber. "'When Friends Had the Management It was Entirely Different': Quakers and Calvinists in the Making of New York Prison Discipline." Quaker History 92, 2 (Fall 2008): 19-20.
Rebecca Onion, "The Pen: Inmates at America's oldest women's prison are writing a history of it--and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders." Slate. March 22, 2015.
Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky, "'Hopelessly Hardened': The Complexities of Penitentiary Discipline at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary." Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. Ed. Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. 106-123 (in our password-protected file).
Laura Magnani and Harmon L. Wray. "History of a Failed System" and "Searching for a New Justice Paradigm." Beyond Prison: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System. Minneapolis; Fortress Press, 2006. 18-29, 159-187 (in our password-protected file).
Mike Nellis and Maureen Waugh. "Quakers and Penal Reform." The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Ed. Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 377-391 (in our password-protected file).