Ripping Off Some Room For People To Breath Together Summary

Davis (2015), in her article titled, Ripping off some room for people to “breath together”: Peer-to-peer education in prison, argues that faculty members who work in a higher-education prison program need to learn from and work with incarcerated people who are educating their peers and those who are obtaining an education. This article emerges from an ongoing conversation between Simone Davis, a member and coordinator of Walls to Bridges Collective that offers non-incarcerated and incarcerated people a reciprocal learning model, and Bruce Michael, a prisoner that runs an inside-college program for the incarcerated people.
The author emphasizes that higher-education programs in prison uphold the prison rehabilitation mission. Thus, it ends up increasing the scope of security and surveillance making prisoners feel less likely to find a purpose in their education. I agree with the author and Michael that having a self-governed educational program will not require them to follow the rehabilitation mission of the prison nor will they be evaluated by the faculty on how they are doing. In addition, by having their own educational program inside, correctional authorities do not have to raise their surveillance and security.
Non-incarcerated individuals can easily do activities of their interests without the authorization of a superior, where on the contrary, those who are incarcerated cannot easily do it. I agree with the author that incarcerated people do not have the same opportunities as we do regarding their interests, such as reading, writing, political, and artistic expressions unless they defy their superior or negotiate with them. Prisoners are not given many resources and when they are given some there are no assets for an effective operation because of the cutbacks. In addition, when they aspire an interest, correctional authorities do not authorize them to fulfill their