Full Description
VOLUME 32, Number 1 (2023) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Walls to Bridges" (W2B) edited by Shoshana Pollack (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Christine Mayor (University of Manitoba). The collection features articles by alumni and professors marking the 10th anniversary of W2B, which offers for-credit courses through universities and colleges taught within correctional settings across Canada where an equal number of incarcerated ("inside") students and university/college-based ("outside") students learn together as peers. The impact of the initiative behind and beyond prison walls, the role of collaborative learning and Indigenous ways of knowing, leadership by imprisoned people, and the experiences of anti-Black racism and colonization in and out of prison classrooms are just some of the themes addressed in this special issue. The collection also includes artwork by W2B alumni.
Contents
INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Walls to Bridges
Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor
ARTICLES
The Heartwork in Walls to Bridges:
A Conversation on Anti-Colonial Education and Incarceration
Sandy Anderson, Savage Bear, Sara Howdle, Chantel Huel,
Lisa Prins, Allison Sivak and Bonny Spencer
Walls to Bridges:
Evolving Our Work Within Carceral Spaces
by Rupturing Racism and Oppression Through a Participatory Process
Melissa Alexander, Denise Edwards, Hayden King,
Lorraine Pinnock and Rai Reece
Staying Connected Across the Wall During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Walls to Bridges Grand Valley Institution for Women Collective
The Transformative Potential of Walls to Bridges:
My Journey into Becoming a Whole Self
Rachel Fayter
Facilitating Group Discussion in Prison:
Decolonizing, Destigmatizing and Egalitarian Approaches
Tam Le, Nathanael Plourde and Jodi Dueck-Read
Refl ection in Five Moments:
Walls to Bridges at Fraser Valley Institution
Walls to Bridges BC Collective
A Bridge Interrupted
Vanessa Slater and Jahmar
Together in Spirit:
Collaborative Art-Making Across Time and Space
Emily Bridge, Cathee Porter and Shea Wilson
RESPONSE
Emotions in Pedagogical Practice:
Relational Ethics and Collectivity Building in W2B
Aislinn Gallivan, Jennifer M. Kilty, Sandra Lehalle,
Rachel Fayter, Ikram Handulle, Alexis Truong,
Michael Tshimanga and Abigail White
BOOK REVIEWS
Down Inside:
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
by Robert Clark
Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions (2017) 277 pp.
Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway
Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition
by Didier Fassin
Cambridge: Polity Press (2020) 302 pp.
Reviewed by Dean C. Roberts
Life Beyond Crime: What Do Those at Risk of Off ending,
Prisoners and Ex-off enders Need to Learn?
edited by Paul Crane
London: Lemos & Crane (2017) 292 pp.
Reviewed by David Dorson
Available Titles and Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES - CALLS FOR PAPERS
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Jennifer Kilty, Rachel Fayter and Justin Piché
Profi ling and the Canadian Carceral State /
Les profi lages et l'État carcéral canadien
Justin Piché / Observatoire des profi lages
COVER ART
"One Heartbeat" (front cover)
Terri M.
2020
"Presentiment" (back cover)
Nicola
2020
