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Prison Education: Student Writing (06-06-2011)

Out of my class has come a smorgasbord of interesting writing, some of it very good and some of it not so good. In the spirit of promoting my fellow prisoner-writer and prisoner-student, I have an excerpt for you. One of my students turned in a superb beginning to his novel. He agreed to allow it to be posted on the blog. His hope is to receive feedback which I can forward to him. My hope is to show you what great work came out of my class and to hopefully humanize prisoners a bit. I hope you enjoy. It is certainly witty and clever…not to mention eerily similar to my current surroundings, a land for which I have coined the phrase “The Land of Misfit Toys.” Do note that parts of this writing are slightly graphic, so be prepared.

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