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The Central Park Five
I’ve been lucky this semester to teach in the Goucher Prison Education Program. I’m not allowed to write about my experiences yet, as anything that I post has to be approved first by the Prison Information Officer. But I can say out loud that this has been an amazing, life-changing, experience. I can also write about the amazing Central Park Five screening that took place at the prison on May 1. Well, I can’t write about it except to say that it happened: Sarah Burns and David McMahon (the producers/directors, along with Ken Burns, of the documentary) screened The Central Park Five at the men’s prison in Jessup. They brought along two members of the Central Park Five, Korey and Raymond, and spent two hours fielding questions from my students. The only thing I can write about the experience is what was made public by the filmmakers after the event: my incarcerated students were insightful and thoughtful and brought up questions that had never been raised before during the hundreds of screenings.
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