The Prison Mirror is the newspaper of the Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater, also known as the Stillwater State Prison, and claims to be the longest, continuously published prison newspaper in the country. https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/hub/prison-mirror
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Encyclopedia of Psychology
Encyclopedia of Ethics
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Dictionary of American History
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
The Encyclopedia of American Prisons
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature
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For many of us, the image of prison life has been shaped not by experience but by popular media and literature. From Escape from Alcatraz to John Cheever’s Falconer to Orange Is the New Black, our cultural production for decades has included stories about the world behind high walls and barbed wire, and our understanding of the country’s incarcerated population is influenced by the stories we’ve read or witnessed on screen. In this colloquium we will examine how narrative shapes our perception of lives that play out beyond our view, and how different kinds of storytelling—from journalism, to memoir, to narrative poetry, to fiction, to film and television—communicate ideas about crime and punishment, about guilt and redemption, and about race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of correctional institutions.
