ABSTRACT While much has been written within academic journals about prisoners, rarely is there anything written by prisoners. In this essay, we, a group of prisoners who are earning or have earned college degrees while incarcerated in Texas, address the purpose, merits, and pitfalls of prison education and reform. Written as a response to the essays appearing in this special issue, we discuss our experiences of being othered as inmates, the impact of societal bias against us, our perspectives on prison education, and our own ideas for reforming prisons and making them more humane.

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利与弊：通过监狱的教育对监狱进行教育

摘要尽管在学术期刊上已经有很多关于囚犯的文章，但囚犯却很少写任何东西。在本文中，我们是一群在德克萨斯州被监禁时正在获得或已经获得大学学位的囚犯，他们探讨了监狱教育和改革的目的，优点和陷阱。作为对本期特刊文章的回应，我们讨论了被囚禁的经历，社会偏见对我们的影响，我们对监狱教育的看法以及我们对监狱进行改革并使其更具人性化的想法。