Teaching about the PIC & Criminal Legal System |
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Thank you for your interest in receiving "Teaching about the Prison Industrial Complex and Criminal Legal System: Exercises, Simulations, Resources, and Discussion Ideas" by Dr. Michelle VanNatta of Dominican University.
This curriculum offers ideas for exercises that can be adapted, shared, and transformed to meet the needs of different groups. These activities are offered as potential tools in the hopes they may be useful in sparking discussion and in the development of more curricula.
All of these exercises can be used with adults and youth in different settings, usually requiring little equipment or technology. Each begins with information about the recommended number of participants, materials and technology needed, set-up, and structure for the exercise. Facilitators can modify each exercise based on their own understanding of the backgrounds, knowledge, needs, and perspectives of their participants. While one exercise may be too basic for one group, another group using the same exercise may require background information or analysis about relevant issues.
The curriculum is in no way meant to provide a comprehensive look at issues in the prison industrial complex or criminal legal system. This is not a systematically developed, integrated group of exercises intended to provide a thorough view and analysis of all the critical issues about the prison industrial complex that communities, students, and activists need to learn about. Rather, it’s a set of tools intended to be adapted and integrated into curricula, popular education, or training efforts by teachers, organizers, and community builders.
Please complete the following information so that we know how you plan to use the guide.
This curriculum offers ideas for exercises that can be adapted, shared, and transformed to meet the needs of different groups. These activities are offered as potential tools in the hopes they may be useful in sparking discussion and in the development of more curricula.
All of these exercises can be used with adults and youth in different settings, usually requiring little equipment or technology. Each begins with information about the recommended number of participants, materials and technology needed, set-up, and structure for the exercise. Facilitators can modify each exercise based on their own understanding of the backgrounds, knowledge, needs, and perspectives of their participants. While one exercise may be too basic for one group, another group using the same exercise may require background information or analysis about relevant issues.
The curriculum is in no way meant to provide a comprehensive look at issues in the prison industrial complex or criminal legal system. This is not a systematically developed, integrated group of exercises intended to provide a thorough view and analysis of all the critical issues about the prison industrial complex that communities, students, and activists need to learn about. Rather, it’s a set of tools intended to be adapted and integrated into curricula, popular education, or training efforts by teachers, organizers, and community builders.
Please complete the following information so that we know how you plan to use the guide.