adds. “Tat completely has shiſted who I am and how I live my life.” “We never cease to be amazed that it


takes so much time for us to get in there and there are so many air locks,” says Ziegler. “Te control the women are under, every minute of the day, resonates with us. My mission in teaching is to recognize their humanity, to foster the women’s ambition to be the productive citizens and good parents that they want


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to be, that they know they can be if given the chance. Tey’re so hungry to succeed and be good at something they can call their own.”


free to speak their minds, be themselves, and show what they’re capable of. Con-


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uch of the learning that takes place is, literally, extra-curric- ular. For a few precious hours, the incarcerated women are


versely, the outside students have to stay, uncharacteristically, put. It seems to be a singularly powerful form of role reversal. “When inside and outside students


are together, they learn from each other in ways that are really hard to explain,” says Lucy. “Te inside students learn that they won’t be judged only by why they’re in prison, that they’re as capable as col- lege students, that they have knowledge to offer the outside students. I think the


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