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Jun. 6, 2007

Jury of His Peers

Forum Column - By Joseph H. Cooper - A community college professor teaching inmates gets his incarcerated students' perspectives on the "Scooter" Libby trial.

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."

FORUM COLUMN

By Joseph H. Cooper

     
      There's a group of English Composition/Intro to Communications students who would grant Lewis "Scooter" Libby a reprieve and spare him prison time.
      Incarcerated in one of Connecticut's correctional institutions, the students have written and presented ideas of what they see as his lot - a "fall guy" taking one for the team....

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