Happy to travel to interview any one who is interested in talking to me about their experiences of prison education. But ideally I am looking at London-based ex-prisoners
The story of two fine prison-educated role models!
‘I Don’t Have to Hide’: After Prison, 2 Students Begin Again
Two disrupted lives started in the same place...
Between 1980 and 2000, the Vietnamese population of Sacramento County grew by over 600 percent. Many refugee immigrants achieved the archetypal dream of sending their children to college. But even the most protective, diligent parents could not always keep their families on the paths they had tried to build for them. Over this same period Vietnamese Americans were also becoming the largest Asian American Pacific Islander ethnic group in California’s state prisons.
These are the stories of two second-generation sons whose choices made them lose their way. Now they are getting the rare chance to start again...
There is no archetype of someone who was incarcerated, and I think it is important for people to see that normal, everyday people go to prison,” says Amber Crowder, a college graduate who served time in federal prison for a mail-fraud conviction...
Crowder leads the Been Down Project, a digital platform that provides a space for people impacted by incarceration and the criminal-justice system to connect and support one another. She is also working toward opening a restaurant and bar, a Black-, queer- and women-owned business in Washington, D.C.