This thread explores inter-relationships among institutions of higher education and prisons. We focus in particular on teaching and learning – the hallmarks of college in prison programs – as they relate to research and administration within and across universities/colleges and prisons. Our aim is to contribute to broader structural thinking about how we can work in college in prison programs most ethically and in ways that contribute to prison abolition within and across campus and prison settings.
Articles by Erica Meiners
\Erica Meiners, a union member and a Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, a public open access university, Erica is involved in a number of free community and popular education projects including an anti-prison teaching collective, a high school project for people exiting prisons and jail, and radical education at Stateville Prison. A participant in a queer justice and prison abolition movements, Erica R. Meiners is the author of Right to be hostile: schools, prisons and the making of public enemies (2009) and the forthcoming Intimate labor exploring how conceptions of childhood shaped the build up of a prison nation. \