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Words Behind Bars

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Journalist Kal Wagenheim, editor of Inside Out: Voices From New Jersey State Prison, talks about teaching writing in a maximum security prison -- and why the state's Department of Corrections doesn't want the inmates to have this book.

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Kal Wagenheim

Comments [2]

Lori

We won't let inmates have poetry but parents are buying their kids the latest version of Grand Theft Auto.

May. 19 2009 11:58 AM
Leo from Queens

This facility needs to be closed!. Why does the government allow these criminal enterprises to operate under Federal government protection?

May. 19 2009 11:17 AM

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