I'm accompanying a collegue who teaches an inside out course at a State prison nearby. The course involves several inside students (who are incarcerated) and several outside students who are entrolled in this senior level seminar. I'll probably have more to post about this at a later date.
On the first night of class, the outside students were taken on a tour of the facility. For many of us (myself included) this was a first experience inside the walls of a prison. The most uncomfortable dimension of the tour for me was the recognition that these men have no privacy. We walked through housing units where these men live their lives without asking them if they minded. They were gawked at (some gawked right back) and scrutinized.
As we left one of the housing units, I heard one man shout out: "Don't feed the men".
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