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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison

"This play, and the stories it contained, was an experience of transfiguration."

Chris Hedges
Simon & Schuster, 272 pages | Published October 19, 2021

“Students got into the college program at East Jersey State Prison by keeping their disciplinary records clean. I would often hear that prisoners ‘age out of crime,’ and that is probably the best way to describe my students. They held back emotionally. They watched me carefully. They trusted few people and only after long observation. They had clearly demarcated...

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