Unlocking Minds in Lockup

Prison Education Opens Doors

by Jan Walker

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Pub Date Aug 31 2015 | Archive Date Dec 22 2015

Plicata Press LLC | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

Nonfiction (Adult) | Parenting & Families

Description

You Are Invited to Step Inside Prison Classrooms where Convicted Felons are Working to Change Their Lives.

Join the national dialogue on criminal justice and prison reform on this journey through women’s and men’s prisons. These pages let you see and hear inmates who are choosing to learn, think and prepare for release to their communities as contributing adults and involved parents.

Mass incarceration has led to over 2 million adults inside prisons costing taxpayers about 73 billion dollars per year. A recent Rand report states that every dollar spent on prison education now saves five dollars in reincarceration costs. Spend one dollar now – save five dollars.

Walker shows you how classroom interaction dovetailed with correctional case management to help inmate students reexamine their crime related behavior and set goals for reentry into society.

An offender’s successful reentry involves reuniting with family and community. About 2.7 million children have a parent in prison and another 7 million have a parent under court supervision. This book advocates for the rights of children with incarcerated parents.

You Are Invited to Step Inside Prison Classrooms where Convicted Felons are Working to Change Their Lives.

Join the national dialogue on criminal justice and prison reform on this journey through...

Advance Praise

“It is time for everyone to realize the human capital locked away in our prisons and how it may be translated into an asset important to the future of our communities.”
Faith E. Lutze, Ph.D.,Professor and Graduate Director
Washington State University

“Critical programming of the sort that Unlocking Minds in Lockup describes so movingly, will play a key role in reducing the number of men and women who return to prison. … [It] serves as a blueprint for our way forward.”
Rebecca Ginsburg, Associate Professor and Director
Education Justice Project, University of Illinois

“This book is a must read for educators, criminal justice professionals, child advocates and policy makers.”
Alice Payne, Retired Deputy Director,
Washington State Department of Corrections

Marketing Plan

Aggressive national print, broadcast and social media campaign. Direct mail promotion to Criminal Justice Communities, Correctional Educators, Therapists, Families of those incarcerated.