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Peer reviewedCowser, Robert – Adult Learning, 2003
The author describes his experience teaching a writing group in Martin Tennessee jail. The faces of most of the inmates showed curiosity. Each was saying not in words, but by gesture, "help make better this boring existence." The first essays the inmates wrote were about themselves and other members of their family. Some have written…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Institutionalized Persons, Writing (Composition), Correctional Institutions
