NEW YORK STATE LITERARY CENTER'S Incarcerated Education Program
2020 - 2021 Recommended Readings

Kimberly Alters. "A nightmare I cannot seem to escape: what it's like to have a parent in prison right now." Mic, June 3, 2020.

https://www.mic.com/p/a-nightmare-i-cannot-seem-to-escape-what-its-like-to-have-a-parent-in-prison-right-now-22955134

Melinda D. Anderson. "Locked Away: The Toll of Mass Incarceration on Students." Edutopia, January 28, 2019.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/locked-away-toll-mass-incarceration-students?fbclid=IwAR3_aeCCHKWDLbyYNHdVK2I7RgpIT1JeVD4BJczp2kaWCjSFx4CwINqoA9o

Jill Barshay. "A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education." The Heckinger Report, June 29, 2020.

https://hechingerreport.org/a-decade-of-research-on-the-rich-poor-divide-in-education/?fbclid=IwAR35Q9qjvms2Adg-QJ2f9eylD6ql4lQh7pIpCwYFbHVcTs2w5RJXIpogKSI

Abagail Becker. "Reaching out to dads in jail: Fathers and children do better when parental identity is supported." The Capital Times, June 17, 2020.

https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/reaching-out-to-dads-in-jail-fathers-and-children-do-better-when-parental-identity-is/article_603b7786-1bb2-5812-bc09-5e5d8d3f5cb1.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR2C3GupXwH152GFBLeObBBD3AHbTP8rmy0pz-NSFHHE7vHl0ULyAB9NCjk

Rasheed Copeland. "When Puffy says, and we won't stop, 'cause we can't stop." The Academy of American Poets, July 22, 2020.

https://poets.org/poem/when-puffy-says-and-we-won-t-stop-cause-we-can-t-stop?fbclid=IwAR3YOfA6Tp8bXdo9yibEePe6MzkGFMTLc9_hsTdn6kLIfKX4NcviTDIu4GI

Valentina Di Liscia. "An Essential Reading List for Black Liberation, Brought to You by the Schomburg Center." Hyperallergic, June 10, 2020.

https://hyperallergic.com/570031/black-liberation-reading-list-schomburg-center/?fbclid=IwAR2UvF4Y6zkRwH7_rVDb3PoT2jNHW4RXceAI9F4Dxm6TdyvnFWiono-8hyw

Alex Greenberger. "Incarcerated Artists Are Making Some of Today's Most Important Art. A Powerful New Book Explains Why." ARTnews, July 8, 2020.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/prison-art-nicole-fleetwood-jesse-krimes-russell-craig-tameca-cole-1202693793/?fbclid=IwAR29jKMW0_cUk5zn5W1UaY_Jvw_wXvGr9YxweJR0FqRxYGU-Vkcs-n02Aho

Keegan Hamilton. "Photos: Life on the Streets of San Francisco Through the Lens of Ex-Inmates.'Pulitzer Center, November12, 2018.

https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/photos-life-streets-san-francisco-through-lens-ex-inmates?fbclid=IwAR2lGrbCamfopdkFL3CwyFbWqCW6WUvQqlhIPQhgsvyptDNXsbCw8wgljoI

Sylvia Harvey. "My Dad Went to Prison When I Was 5. Now I Write About Families Like Mine." Life Inside, The Marshall Project, June 18, 2020.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/18/my-dad-went-to-prison-when-i-was-5-now-i-write-about-families-like-mine?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share-tools&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=post-top&fbclid=IwAR3qmmiFOoEKNwe9hD60-rB17W5tn3HnDxF7KMc39xQxLrUyzrkrv8aBLl8

Charlayne Hunter-Gault. "Columbia's Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes." The New Yorker, December 23, 1967.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/12/30/hughes-at-columbia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned&fbclid=IwAR1JWhTvMDiPVil1TkdsAM_fQr66o_Dx_t9FPc9ZAFJffb-80b6sZznnciM

Ibram X. Kendi. "A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters." The New York Times

February 22, 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/books/review/a-history-of-race-and-racism-in-america-in-24-chapters.html?campaign_id=58&emc=edit_ck_20200607&instance_id=19152&nl=cooking&regi_id=88782284&segment_id=30299&te=1&user_id=a3d026649ce51bf2f5aee3dcfacb2e85&fbclid=IwAR15QXsy3gomN3UZCSchDUTESbkJVeD4pdZSV5IT_zREnwz9XHRrjU4x6QU

John Lewis. "Together, You Can Redeem, The Soul of Our Nation." The New York Times, July 30, 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR23GDB95ffEKftvZSK82GqJmdtp1xnBG6bDwOjxB-RLvtM_R9OQbza87rA

Kelan Lyons. "New report on juvenile justice features potential solutions from kids with firsthand experience." The CTMirror, June 25, 2020

https://ctmirror.org/2020/06/25/new-report-on-juvenile-justice-features-potential-solutions-from-kids-with-firsthand-experience/?fbclid=IwAR3MIjY_BIgEuB5iNzd_9QwXtWaBoA9UaFSplGoYad1jLjTIxiaVFW3MmDg

Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz. "Pipeline to Prison: Special education too often leads to jail for thousands of American children." The Heckinger Report, October 26, 2014. 

https://hechingerreport.org/pipeline-prison-special-education-often-leads-jail-thousands-american-children/?fbclid=IwAR3nXR9-uTJBB_s-SV7SJybSzz2QSEtgnyhPv3UYuv6y60Ic-Y2H_igmN9M

Jeffrey Pierre. "4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren." NPR: America Reckons with Racial Injustice, June 11, 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/875023672/4-ways-racial-inequity-harms-american-school-children?fbclid=IwAR3C49i3gApSzwRvZnYoiuSoCrY03Ims78nl8DgdQKrwgZzaCsdfuvtWuTA

"Redemption: MIT's Prison Education Program." WBGH, November 26, 2019. "4 Ways Racial Inequity Harmas

https://www.wgbh.org/programs/2019/11/26/redemption-mits-prison-education-program?fbclid=IwAR3WkzMgmvaQrUGagTwQvUQCEvzwrZ66jXpsAfohY0RvvDun41um7KvI-70

David Remnick. "John Lewis's Legacy and America's Redemption." The New Yorker, July 18, 2020.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/27/how-to-redeem-america?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned&fbclid=IwAR2kIAoXdvG3dP7kdbV0bfV7QCoITDuYeC8GPc-o6hUu4hPaZL_4-m392g0

Jean Rhodes. "Finding a silver lining: COVID-19 is shedding new light on childhood poverty." The

Chronicle of Evidenced Based Mentoring, July 20, 2020.

Elizabeth Winkler. "How Phyllis Wheatly was Recovered Through History." The New Yorker, July 30, 2020.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-phillis-wheatley-was-recovered-through-history?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned&fbclid=IwAR24ju1CSC6YaBcXqI6elG7Y2Pom1lSSBo6JguC0YBbsH9Iq3vWLev5NXxA