Monday, January 14 - Class overview; expectations: History of Incoarceration in America; Underlying Theological Concepts; Professional Boundaries
Tuesday, January 15 - Addiction
Wednesday, January 16 - Immersion Experience at Hartford Correctional Center, including lunch
Thursday, January 17 - Continuing discussion of professional boundaries; class Reflections on the prision experience
Friday, January 18 - Sharing of class Reflection papers
Assignments:
Readings
Reflection paper of prison experience
Reflection paper on reserve books
Reading List:
The Art of the Con, Cornelius, Gary, ISBN 1-56991-147-9, ACA Publications
The Work of the Chaplain, Paget, Naomi and McCormack, Janet, ISBN 978-0-8170-1499-5, Judson Press
Prisons, Tonry, Michael and Petersilia, Joan eds., ISBN 0-266-80850-5, University of Chicago Press
Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders,
O’Connor, T.P. and Pallone, N., pp 59-86, 127-159;
Several articles to be provided.
Students will also be expected to participate in an immersion experience at the Hartford Correctional Center and to provide a reflection on that experience. The reflection may be written or in another form to be worked out with the student.
A 2 to 5 page reflection paper is expected at the end of the course on any of the required or suggested readings.
Required texts:
As Though You Were in Prison With Them, Symes, Richard;
Prisons, Tonry, Michael and Petersilia, Joan
The Art of the Con, Cornelius, Gary;
The Work of the Chaplain, Paget, Naomi and McCormack, Janet
Recommended texts:
Addiction, Hoffman, John and Froemke, Susan;
Beyond Prisons, Magnani, Laura and Wray, Harmon;
Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders,
O’Connor, T.P. and Pallone, N;
Women and Punishment, Carlen, Pat.
