Prison

December 7, 2016 by Heather Booth

Screening The 13th: Questions to ask yourself #SJYALit

I recently heard about how “video visits” were growing in popularity with prisons. As the details unfolded, my initial impression of interest (“Oh that’s nice – families could maybe see their incarcerated loved ones more often or from greater distances.”) turned to revulsion. The strategy is being used largely by local jails as a way to […]

December 10, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teens and Prison in the U.S. Series, teens with incarcerated parents

“The incarceration rate has nearly quadrupled since the U.S. declared a war on drugs, researchers say. Along with that, racial disparities abound. Incarceration rates for black Americans are more than six times higher than those for white Americans, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.” – Science Daily, June 25, 2014 At the same […]

August 12, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Just Call My Name by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Any fan of Joss Whedon knows that one of the core concepts of his storytelling is the notion of the chosen family. There are the families that we are born into, and there are the families that we choose, that find us. In Buffy, it was the Scooby gang. In Firelfy it was the crew […]