Jun. 18, 2010
Fatherhood:Inside and Out
While teaching in the community college outreach program for prison inmates, Joseph Cooper of Quinnipiac University met the most articulate student he'd ever had.
Joseph H. Cooper
Joseph was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996, and now resides in Culver City. He is compiling his prison-related articles for publication as "Corrections - Essays from Inside: The In-Prison Education of Inmate-Students and Their Language-Arts Professor."
"I have to compete with the lyrics of hip-hop stars whose words are remixed, boosted and blasted over the radio 50 times a day. And I've had to compete from inside."
That particular "inside" - in the most geographic and profound sense of the word - meant inside a prison. This inmate, who took public speaking and English composition courses from me, as part of a community college outreach program, was one of th...
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