Philosophy Across Prison Walls
Jeffrey R. Paris, University of San Francisco
At the intersection of prison education with service-learning courses,
university students discover the humanity of inmates via the latter’s
principled concern with ethics and morality. Service learning becomes
opposition to our prison nation, for it demonstrates the permeability
of prison walls and highlights the practical importance of the analyses
of Michel Foucault on the panopticon and Angela Davis on the
prison-industrial complex.
Academic Exchange Quarterly Spring 2006 Volume 10, Issue 1
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