Diving in to Prison Teaching: Mina Shaughnessy, Teacher Development, and the Realities of Prison Teaching by Laura Rogers
This article presents interviews with six composition and rhetoric teachers who teach writing in prison. Mina Shaughnessy’s 1976 article “Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing” is used as a heuristic with which to look at this material. As little work is available on the experience of teaching writing in prison, these interviews are a…