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oapen-20.500.12657-240152024-03-22T19:23:13Z Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? Alexander, William Media thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNU Teaching of a specific subject Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration. 2019-11-09 03:00:32 2020-04-01T09:36:05Z 2020-04-01T09:36:05Z 2010 book 1006118 OCN: 1056780094 9780472071098;9780472051090 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24015 eng The New Public Scholarship application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1006118.pdf https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart2/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780472051090&press=umich University of Michigan Press 10.3998/nps.8582521.0001.001 10.3998/nps.8582521.0001.001 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472071098;9780472051090 327 Ann Arbor open access
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Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration.
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