Arts in Corrections
Thirty Years of Annotated Publications
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:25th Oct '22
£125.00
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In Arts in Corrections, the author—a poet, translator and teacher—takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting US arts programs in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities.
Anyone interested in corrections and arts-in-corrections will be drawn in by the poetic sensibility Hillman brings to his writing. Readers will gain a historical and personal perspective not only into correctional arts programming in the US over the last 40 years, but also the institutional transformations in policy, culture, populations, economics, and the criminological mission expansion into other institutional settings like K-12 education. Original essays, articles, monographs and poems are interspersed with recent annotations to deliver not only a top-down view of the correctional system but also the author’s personal journey of "discouragement and hope" from work conducted in approximately 200 adult and juvenile facilities in 30 states and six countries.
This comprehensive book is essential reading for a broad cross-section of international readers interested in and involved in the arts-in-corrections field. With two million individuals behind bars in the US at any given time, the profile of arts programs in prisons and jails is rising and interest in criminal-justice matters more generally is increasing. This includes not only arts-in-corrections professionals, policy makers, students, researchers, advocates and academics, but professionals in multiple other fields as well as the general public.
"Grady Hillman’s lyrical prose offers a deeply researched and thoughtful accounting of arts-in-corrections programming offered in multiple states. This is a unique and highly useful guidebook providing invaluable insight and historical context for prison arts researchers, practitioners, and policymakers."
—Larry Brewster, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor and Dean, University of San Francisco
"Arts in Corrections: Thirty Years of Annotated Publications by Grady Hillman is a tour de force. Hillman, who has been working as a teacher, researcher, and poet in prisons in the United States and abroad for over four decades shares a collection of writings that not only illuminate his experiences and partnerships but also help to map out the rise and effects of mass incarceration from an eye witness point of view. He shares poetry and keen insights for policymakers, scholars of prison studies, anthropologists, and artists. Within this book, there are so many examples of the liberatory power of the arts rounded out by Hillman's keen observations, humanistic depictions, strategic understanding, and beautiful writing."
-Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Ph.D., Dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
"Grady Hillman, a poet and educator, provides an invaluable guidebook for creative arts facilitators based on his professional lifetime of experience. Specifically, the text provides an annotated compilation of textual
resources related to work he undertook as an arts instruction practitioner and consultant between 1983 and 2022. These materials are presented in chronological order by year of publication, and structured into five chapters. The contents include anthologies, poetry, curricular examples, models of programme sustainability, and a directory of people and organisations who have been engaged in prison arts education. I highly recommend Hillman’s book with enthusiasm to anyone interested in arts education for incarcerated adults and juveniles." - John R. Whitman, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge. International Review of Education
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-024-10064-y
ISBN: 9781032310947
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 820g
202 pages