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SCHOOL DAZE: How COVID Impacts Education Prison Literature Club Adapts During COVID Lockdowns
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The last graduation ceremony of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s ROOTS program at San Quentin, on June 9, 2019. (Hien Nguyen)
(This is the second in a series of articles produced in partnership with journalists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in collaboration with the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network.)
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER
Part I
How can education in prisons continue when faced with the limitations of the COVID-19 lockdown?
For the past five years, the Oakland-based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) taught ethnic studies at San Quentin prison in Marin County. The weekly program was called ROOTS short for “Restoring Our Original True Selves.” ....

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