Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you inmates choosing to learn, think and prepare for release to their communities as contributing adults and involved parents. She taught parenting, family relationships and social responsibility classes inside women's and men's prisons for 18 years. She developed curriculum specific to her students needs, wrote textbooks adopted by correctional educators and advocated for the rights of children of incarcerated parents. This book is the author's story...
Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you in...
They've heard it said, these walls, that walls have ears. They've heard the prayers of thanks for their lack of tongues. Foolish are those who trust the silence, for the walls hold onto memories. They know more than smoke and wine; they know where the body lies. Beth Marasich and her cousin Dani Manette Marasich, both just turning 15, are about as different as their hometowns-Old Town Tacoma and Tiburon California. Put them together for the summer following their fisherman grandfather's death, and watch an Old Town History Lesson unfold. There're rumors of a buried body, bets being placed...
They've heard it said, these walls, that walls have ears. They've heard the prayers of thanks for their lack of tongues. Foolish are those who trust t...
As I go on in this life, a verse from Psalm 16 is my story: "You will show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy." That path has taken me on adventures wanted and unwanted, and led to dreams that came true and dreams that died along the way. That is my story so far. I've come to know that each of us is a story and how we tell our story makes a difference as we walk through this world. We all have broken pieces of ourselves that we've left along the path, but we can decide whether to pick them up and put them together in a new way and go on, or we can go on with the...
As I go on in this life, a verse from Psalm 16 is my story: "You will show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy." That pa...
As I go on in this life, a verse from Psalm 16 is my story: "You will show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy." That path has taken me on adventures wanted and unwanted, and led to dreams that came true and dreams that died along the way. That is my story so far. I've come to know that each of us is a story and how we tell our story makes a difference as we walk through this world. We all have broken pieces of ourselves that we've left along the path, but we can decide whether to pick them up and put them together in a new way and go on, or we can go on with the...
As I go on in this life, a verse from Psalm 16 is my story: "You will show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy." That pa...
Meet Romar Jones, 15 1/2, basketball player with months to go before the next season and no one who cares about him since Granny died. His dad's been dead for two years. When his 9th grade language arts teacher says pay attention to the poetry unit or take a hike, Romar opts for the hike, leaves Roseburg, Oregon, and embarks on a journey to find his mother. He knows she's in prison in Washington. He shrugs on his dad's trail-guide backpack, and sets out, heading first to the coast to leave some of Granny's ashes. Within minutes of first chasing waves on the ocean beach, he encounters a...
Meet Romar Jones, 15 1/2, basketball player with months to go before the next season and no one who cares about him since Granny died. His dad's been ...
