Bibliography
Annie E. Casey Foundation. “A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities.” Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation/ Kids Count, April 2016. Available https://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/aecf-asharedsentence-2016.pdf. Accessed May 9, 2019.
This policy report focuses on the children left behind when a parent is incarcerated.
Blatt, David. “Guest Blog (Susan Sharp): Rethinking Female Incarceration.” Oklahoma Policy Institute. December 6, 2010 (updated May 2, 2019). https://okpolicy.org/guest-blog-susan-sharp-rethinking-female-incarceration/. Accessed May 8, 2019.
This short blog post gives an excellent summary of why Oklahoma’s female incarceration is so high.
Bosworth, Mary. Explaining U.S. Imprisonment. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010.
This book looks at imprisonment and punishment going back to colonial times, and makes a call to reduce incarceration.
Branstetter, Ziva, Allison Herrera, Harriet Rowman, and Eric Sagara. “Let Down and Locked Up: Why Oklahoma’s Female Incarceration Is So High.” Emery, CA: Reveal. September 20, 2017. https://www.revealnews.org/article/let-down-and-locked-up-why-oklahomas-female-incarceration-is-so-high/. Accessed May 3, 2019.
This article looks specifically at Oklahoma’s women’s rate of incarceration and drug offenses.
Hairston, Creasie Finney, and Patricia W. Lockett. “Parents in Prison: New Directions for Social Services.” In Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family, edited by Othello Harris and R. Robin Miller, 181-186. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
This looks at the Parents in Prison program in Tennessee, which aims to develop community support for parents both during and after their incarceration.
‘Handout: Streams and Rivers: Influences on Your Views.” https://blog.cps.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ReparationsWon_MiddleSchool.pdf
This has handout that can be used with students, should you need to have a mini-lesson with your students about who, what, and how their views are influenced.
Harvell, Samantha, Chloe Warnberg, Leah Sakala, and Constance Hull. Promoting a New Direction for Youth Justice: Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and Opportunity. Urban Institute. March 2019. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/100013/innovative_strategies_for_investing_in_youth_justice_0.pdf. Accessed May 6, 2019.
This report looks at how incarcerated juveniles and their families can be better served by their communities.
Hattery, Angela, and Earl Smith. Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital: The Long Road to Reintegration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.
In particular, Chapter 5 “The Special Case of Women” is a useful read when discussing issues specific to incarcerated women; for example, the policy on shackling women’s hands, feet, and belly even when they are in a hospital in labor.
“How to Have an Effective Visit with Your Policy Maker.” Union of Concerned Scientists. Accessed August 8, 2019. https://www.ucsusa.org/action/meeting-with-legislators.html.
For those students whose projects result in a meeting with an elected official, this provides some guidance to make the most of an in-person proposal.
Human Rights Watch. Accessed August 8, 2019. www.hrw.org.
The HRW has many special reports that combine personal anecdotes with data to paint a meaningful, relatable illustration of data.
John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. Accessed May 20, 2019. https://www.jhfcenter.org/national-symposium.
Ideally, students will present their proposals at their 2020 National Symposium.
“K-W-L (Know, What to Know, Learned).” National Education Association. Accessed August 8, 2019. http://www.nea.org/tools/k-w-l-know-want-to-know-learned.html.
This site describes the form and function of using K-W-Ls in the classroom.
McGee, Richard A. Prisons and Politics. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1981.
McGee was California’s first director of corrections. This book contains his reflections and predictions, and it’s interesting to read how he’s calling for some of the same reforms as a warden in the 1940s-1960s that are being called for now.
PEW Charitable Trusts, “Weighing Imprisonment and Crime: 9 Experts Explore the Relationship Between Prisons and Crime Rates” (PEW Charitable Trusts National Survey, Feb. 2015).
This is an interesting panel; one member was a staff member on LBJ’s 1964 crime commission.
Sered, Susan Starr. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Road to Repair. New York: The New Press, 2019.
Many (this unit included) who focus on reducing mass incarceration are biased towards nonviolent offenses such as drugs; Sered’s book, and her organization Common Justice, focus on solutions to the mass incarceration of violent offenders. Her work makes sure that we fully turn the mirror on ourselves as a society.
Sered, Susan Starr, and Maureen Norton-Hawk. Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014.
These three women have researched and written extensively on issues specific to incarcerated women.
Skotnicki, Andrew. Religion and the Development of the American Penal System. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.
This is very dense, and might be very good for historical background and theories.
“Statistics in Schools.” Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools Program. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://www.census.gov/schools.
This is a useful website if you or your students need a primer on the usefulness of statistics.
Still She Rises Tulsa. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://www.stillsherises.org/.
Still She Rises is an offshoot of the Bronx Defenders, and are a “holistic defense office” that focuses exclusively on mothers.
“Talking Circles.” First Nations Pedagogy Online. Accessed July 13, 2019. http://firstnationspedagogy.ca/circletalks.html.
This is an activity in which participants sit in a circle and talk in an uninterrupted matter on a sensitive or thought-provoking topic. An object is used to designate turns to speak.
“Teaching Strategy: Word Wall.” Facing History and Ourselves. Accessed August 8, 2019.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/word-wall.
This describes the rationale and procedure for establishing a Word Wall in the classroom.
“Using Roles in Group Work.” The Teaching Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Accessed August 8, 2019. https://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/resources/active-learning/group-work-in-class/using-roles-in-group-work/.
This can help provide guidance and rationale for assigning roles to group members.
Walsh, John P. The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Area. Lanhan, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
This book focuses particularly on Cook County, but has general statistics and information that may be useful for background info.
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