MIT Prison Education Initiative Discussion About Incarceration

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Joseph Harp Correctional Facility is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Lexington, Oklahoma. (Image courtesy of Josh Rushing. License: CC BY-NC-SA.)

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The MIT Prison Education Initiative (PEI) hosted this non-credit January IAP course to give the MIT community an opportunity to engage in discussions about mass incarceration and criminal justice reform. The Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a special four week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

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MIT Prison Education Initiative. RES.ES-001 MIT Prison Education Initiative Discussion About Incarceration. January IAP 2021. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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