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On ‘Chain-Gang All-Stars.’
I went to the jail last Sunday afternoon to host our weekly poetry class. A corrections officer escorted me to the fourth floor and then down a hallway toward the room that they let me use for classes. The officer and I had briefly chatted in the elevator, but after we reached the fourth floor,…
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On substitutes.
High school classrooms turn chaotic when a sub is running the room … and now they’re sending substitute teachers to maintain order in prisons??
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