12.06 - Internet Access for Prisoners

In looking at Animal Farm, "Harrison Bergeron," and Anthem, we have been talking about the ways that governments control and restrict access to information. While we, as Americans, live in a very free and open society, even our society sometimes has to restrict and control information. One way that this happens is in federal prisons where inmates do not have access to the internet. This serves both to further restrict inmates activities (one of the main goals of prison) and prevents prisoners from committing further crimes in prison (stalking, threatening, making illegal sales/purchases online). However, inmates who were imprisoned before the internet was as developed and widely used as it is today are released into a world that is very different from the one they left and this limits their opportunities to positively engage in society upon release.

In class, we read the following article to better understand this situation.

Internet Access in Prison

After reading the article we read and responded to the associated questions. We began discussing individuals' perspectives on these questions and moved to a fish bowl format to enable people to be better heard in this discussion (guidelines for a fishbowl discussion are below).

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We will return to our work with Anthem next class.

Homework:

If you did not do so in class, finish reading chapter one of Anthem. We will have time to finish responding to the questions tomorrow in class.

Practice your Poetry Out Loud poem.

 

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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