Demands for more innovative approaches to prison education have flooded the calls for papers in rhetoric and composition journals (Hinshaw & Jacobi 2018; Smith McKoy and Alexander 2018), marking a necessary push toward more dialogic prison engagement and collaboration. Specific to this special issue, Hinshaw and Jacobi (2018) hope to curate pedagogical awareness to include mass incarceration into the rhetoric and composition vocabulary, taking a critical approach to the process of establishing prison education programs and cultivating rehabilitative promise.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric