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Correcting Corrections: A Deep Dive on Prison Education
August 23, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
A deep dive panel discussion on prison education that will examine links between literacy and incarceration, literacy and the inmate experience behind bars and literacy and the re-entry into society. Q&A session will follow.
MODERATOR: Judge James E. Graves, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
SPECIAL GUEST: Piper Kerman, Author of Orange Is The New Black
PANELISTS:
Carol Andersen, Mississippi Humanties Council Prison Education Director
Pelicia Hall, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner
Betty Lou Jones, Mississippi Parole Board
Judge Keith Starrett, Southern District of Mississippi
PANEL SESSION IS FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE, SPACE LIMITED
