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education, and because Pell grants support post-secondary education, it is no surprise that post-secondary education receives a disproportionate amount of attention in this publication. While several chapters in “Education for Liberation” focus exclusively or primarily on post-secondary education, college access is also the dominant theme in the comments of the incarcerated or formerly incarcerated contributors to the book’s concluding “student voices” chapter. This focus is appropriate since this is an important

and unresolved policy issue, but unfortunately other aspects of the “need/opportunity” equation in correctional education are somewhat under-represented. Max Kenner authors the first topical chapter. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program which offers access to Bard College degree programs in a number of New York State prisons. This initiative also inspires and supports the efforts of liberal arts colleges in several other states to establish similar college

programs. His chapter recounts much of the previously untold story of college in prison programs over many decades. Establishing a historical context for college in prison is important to inform the aforementioned policy discussions on the restoration of Pell grant access to the incarcerated. Mr. Kenner is to be thanked and commended for the considerable digging that he did to establish this history, and for developing an excellent and coherent narrative capable of putting this broad range of historical information into perspective. →

ACA Seeks Book Authors Do you have experience in corrections and the desire to inform others about what you have learned? If so, you are a potential ACA author. We are seeking corrections professionals to submit book manuscripts for review and consideration on a variety of subject matter.

Possible topics include • Ethics in corrections. • Effective mental health treatment. • Sex offender monitoring and treatment. • Financial management in corrections. • Programs for long-term offenders. • Staff training. • Greening of corrections: innovative strategies. • Preparing offenders for reentry. • Incarcerated women: reducing recidivism.

Your suggestions for books on other topics are welcome. For more information, please contact 800-222-5646, ext. 0194.

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