Yukari Iwatani Kane at San Quentin State Prison I recently wrote about criminal justice reform and James Forman Jr.’s book, Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America . When I attended his talk at a local bookstore, he shared some of the ways in which we could all support the cause. One of the examples he mentioned was volunteering to teach in a prison setting. Forman himself taught a class in a Connecticut prison and found it very rewarding. Yukari Iwatani Kane is a book author and journalist who teaches writing and journalism at San Quentin. (She is the author of Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs and previously worked as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal and Reuters.) Here’s what she has to say about her own experience teaching journalism and writing to inmates. Are you interested in issues of criminal justice reform? I really wasn't before. I read about them of course, but it was something that affected a part of society that I ...
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