Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to incarcerated people, yet all across America prisoners are prevented from pursuing their education. \u201cAtiba\u201d Demetrius Brown, for instance, has been dedicated to improving himself and his post-incarceration prospects by taking correspondence courses while incarcerated in Maryland, but thanks to a draconian new decree by the Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS), Atiba can\u2019t take his exams. In this installment of\u00a0Rattling the Bars, Victor Wallis joins Mansa Musa to discuss the case of \u201cAtiba\u201d Demetrius Brown and the calculated cruelty of the prison-industrial complex.<\/p>\n
Victor Wallis\u00a0is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been involved in prisoner support activities since the 1970s in Indiana, and he is the author of numerous books, including\u00a0Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on US Politics, which has been used in prison education projects.<\/p>\n
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