Annie McClanahan, associate professor of English at UC Irvine writes, “When I tell people I teach English literature courses to incarcerated UC Irvine students, they typically ask me whether teaching at the prison is different from teaching on campus. I give the kind of ambiguous answer people probably expect to hear from a humanities professor — “It’s complicated. … Like our on-campus UCI students, the LIFTED students are in college for practical reasons as well as for love of learning. They are doing it for themselves; they are doing it for their parents or kids. They are in college to honor their ancestors; they are there to break a family pattern.”

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