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Correctional Education
As a retired correctional educator, I believe education helps incarcerated women and men rethink their lives. Education may be the single most important factor in reducing recidivism and in helping children of incarcerated parents avoid the behaviors that led their parents to prison.
Over 2 million U.S. children 17 and younger currently have a parent in prison or jail. Approximately 10 million have experienced parental incarceration. A 2004 Tennessee report stated that statistics show 7 out of every 10 children with an incarcerated parent will one day end up behind bars themselves.
During the 18 years I taught parenting and family relationships concepts to adult felons inside prison classrooms, I developed curriculum specific to their needs, wrote textbooks and booklets widely used by correctional educators, and coordinated an innovative prison orientation program. My most popular text, Parenting From a Distance, Your Rights and Responsibilities, speaks to concerns of mothers and fathers who are also inmates. The 2005 reissue of the text is offered for sale on this website.
I have posted downloadable basic skills curriculum for child development, parenting, and family history and patterns for ABE instructors use on this website under Were Still Members of the Family.
My current work includes a criminal justice/memoir title, Dancing to the Concertinas Tune: A prison teachers memoir (available from the University Press of New England), and a middle-grade novel, An Inmates Daughter, available at book stores in Spring 2006. The novel is set in Tacoma, Washington, with scenes at McNeil Island Corrections Center.
I am a professional member of the Correctional Education Association. I remain an advocate for the rights of children with parents in prison.
Corrections Presentations
Downloadable Curriculum
Family Series:Child Development
Family Series:Family History
Parenting Series
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