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Our class, trauma and transformation in an American prison, Chris Hedges

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Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

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non fiction

Our class

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Chris Hedges

trauma and transformation in an American prison

"Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--, Provided by publisherSince 2013, Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play, Caged, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, and later be published, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. Here Hedges chronicles their efforts. -- adapted from jacket

The Call -- The Antenna -- Mama Herc -- Rage and Terror -- The Song -- Rebels -- Family -- The Code -- The Play

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