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firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Prison officials destroyed computer files containing inmates' personal writing days after a prisoner won a national writing award, best-selling author Wally Lamb said.
And they weren't even writing about their crimes, though, even if they were, big deal. The department of corrections is blaming this on "miscommunication" and is ordering an investigation.
This writing program, taught by Wally Lamb, who wrote She's Come Undone, resulted in an anthology of women's prison writing called Couldn't Keep it to Myself last year. One of the women has just won a $25K writing prize; under current CT law, she would forfeit this. So let me get this straight - if you're not profiting from your actual crime, what's wrong with discovering you have a renumerative skill in prison? Isn't that point of rehabilitation the first place?
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Isn't that point of rehabilitation the first place?
But isn't that the nut of the issue? Whether we put people in prison to rehabilitate them? I'd like to think that's the goal, but I suspect the mentality of a lot of people in the current climate is that any rehabilitation that happens is secondary to the mission of making sure they're well and truly punished.
Posted by: mph | April 16, 2004 11:11 AM