The Bard Prison Initiative: Education, Incarceration, and Public Health

Fullilove, Robert E.; Cortes, Aníbal; Gamarra, Richard; Maxis, Hancy

doi:10.2105/ajph.2019.305457

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“…Literacy and numeracy rates are above 98% in all population groups inclusive of age and gender. The increased literacy and numeracy achievements have been directly correlated to improved health and wellbeing, reduced drug and alcohol addictions, increased employment, reduced crime – particularly in the area of gendered violence, and reduced corruption in government and non-government organisations (Dhrifi et al, 2020; Fullilove et al, 2020; Remeikienė et al, 2020). Educational spending is scrutinised within the recently introduced DecAS supplementary biennial report, to ensure that the economic benefits from reduced incarcerations and, welfare and health demands are reinvested in education.…”

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Celebrating the chameleon educational policy reforms of 2050

Clutterbuck

2021

Policy Futures in Education

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The Chameleon Educational Policy Reforms’ (CEPR) 25th anniversary was celebrated at the Global General Assembly with the 2075 Decennial Analysis of Schooling (DecAS) announcement of the attainment of a benefit-cost ratio of >1.0. The attainment of a global positive net value of education is directly linked to the educational reforms established to ‘provide the right access to the right education for all people’ (CEPR, 2050). The Chameleon reforms, informed by The Algorithm, produce policies that instantly adapt to the learning environment and needs of students. Barriers that effect students’ learning are removed, in stark contrast to historic processes that viewed students as the barrier to be removed from learning environments. The case studies presented in this paper are guided by three questions: ‘Where are we now?’, ‘How did we get here?’, and ‘Are we there yet?’. Questioning the ‘here and now’, directs a look back from educational engagement currently governed by the CEPR to key moments and movements in the attainment of past grand policy announcements that no child be left behind to live in poverty. And ‘yet’, leads to critical consideration of the ongoing engagement with The Algorithm. Artifacts detailing the 2045 commencement of annual donations from the richest two percent to fully fund global education remain sealed. The results of the annual donations are, however, publicly available; and some would say exploited (Gerve, 2072). Achieving self-sustainable economic cost-benefit status for the CEPR may release the Donators from those agreements and untether society from the Donators.

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Celebrating the chameleon educational policy reforms of 2050

Clutterbuck

2021

Policy Futures in Education

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“…Current pedagogical examples of interrogating structural racism, including the PIC, are limited (Chandler et al, 2022; Rice, 2022). However, there are some examples of public health faculty who teach courses related to the public health impacts of criminalization and mass incarceration (Duarte et al, 2020; Fullilove et al, 2020; Heller & Galea, 2020; Nowotny et al, 2020; Rice, 2022) as well as efforts in social work (James, 2021) and medicine (Asmerom et al, 2022) that integrate abolition into the curriculum. Echoing other recent calls, there is a need for academic public health to generate scholarship and train professionals on the population health consequences of the PIC and develop community-led strategies to reduce incarceration (Heller & Galea, 2020).…”

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“…This means abolitionist public health can be pursued in a myriad of ways from the interpersonal to the systemic level. For example, we can integrate the public health consequences of the PIC into the curriculum (Heller & Galea, 2020); organize alongside existing student-led efforts such as the national abolitionist Cops off Campus Coalition (2022); contribute to public health education for those who are incarcerated (Fullilove et al, 2020); join local mutual aid efforts (Spade, 2020); examine the health inequities in the carceral system that have been illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic to advocate for decarceration at local prison and jails (Beckett et al, 2021); and organize and build power with students (Little, 2020) and faculty (University of Michigan School of Public Health Faculty, 2020) to demand university’s investment in policing be redirected to mental health services, affordable housing, adequate pay, and other factors that create more equitable and just campuses. While we do not expect academic spaces to be a sole source of abolition, we see it as a site of struggle, collaboration, and learning on the way toward abolition.…”

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A Call for a Transformative Public Health Training: The Necessity of Abolition

Lipo Zovic,

Riley,

Sandon Perez-Bill

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Health Educ Behav

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The societal distrust of public health alongside the complex, intersecting, and large public health crises of today and our future requires a transformation of the education of the next generation of public health leaders. The field of public health’s goals of health equity for all cannot be advanced until our field interrogates and resists the prison industrial complex (PIC), which maintains White supremacy and (re)produces health inequities. As current and former public health students, we propose incorporating abolition of the PIC as a political vision, structural and power analysis, and organizing strategy into the public health curriculum. We highlight gaps in the public health curriculum and the existing similarities between stated goals of abolition and public health. We propose calls to action for individuals, faculty, and schools of public health to interrogate the carceral nature of public health and work toward contributing to the positive project of an abolitionist future.

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“…While studies have shown that delivering higher education to individuals involved with the criminal justice system reduces recidivism rates (Castro, 2018;Fullilove, Cortes, Gamarra, & Maxis, 2020;O'Brien, King, Phillips, & Kath, 2021), it has taken several decades for researchers and stakeholders to demonstrate the magnitude of this impact to governing agencies (Batiuk et al, 1997;Curtis, 2021;Evans, 2018;Nally, 2012). Even though the research is enviably clear, that higher education directly impacts recidivism, there are still several barriers that need to be addressed (Gashi, 2021;Gould, 2018;Ludlow, Armstrong, & Bartels, 2019;Te Pere & Stewart, 2021).…”

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Effective Online Course Delivery in Correctional Settings: A Pilot

2022

JHETP

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This paper provides an analysis of best practices for the design and delivery of online programming within correctional facilities, ascertained from the evaluation of a pilot course. Utilizing the case study methodology, it was observed that fully online coursework may be delivered within controlled settings. Key considerations for effective design and delivery centered around scheduling regular check-ins with administration from the University and the Correctional Center, conducting technology testing on a set cadence, incorporating synchronous components and evaluating opportunities for the inclusion of courseembedded advising to ensure engagement. Future directions include continued delivery of a Baccalaureate program, the incorporation of micro-credentials to provide targeted training in key areas of relevance and degree continuity planning to support degree completion among recently released individuals.

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The Bard Prison Initiative: Education, Incarceration, and Public Health

Cited by 4 publications

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Celebrating the chameleon educational policy reforms of 2050

Celebrating the chameleon educational policy reforms of 2050

A Call for a Transformative Public Health Training: The Necessity of Abolition

Effective Online Course Delivery in Correctional Settings: A Pilot

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