Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison — When Prison Becomes Identity
What happens when punishment does more than restrict freedom—when it also teaches society, and eventually the prisoner, to see a human being as a permanent criminal identity?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
In Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Chris Hedges recounts his years teaching inside New Jersey prisons and the class that eventually created the play Caged.
This Deep Dive examines mass incarceration as a system that can shape identity as well as impose punishment. Poverty, racialized policing, plea bargaining…
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