Use your inside voice
This expression is often used by parents, teachers and others to invite us to use a softer and calmer voice so as not to upset the environment. We hear this at home, school, library, church, etc. In those settings, we are told that outside voices should be left for the playground, stadium, and other public places.
So, is it ever appropriate to use “an inside voice” on the outside as well as the inside? JPEN thinks so. This newsletter provides you with some voices “from the inside” of carceral facilities. You will hear the perspective of instructor Dr. Chris Haw from the University of Scranton on how all of us are transformed by unearned love and grace. Taneisha Spall, the Eastern Region Liaison for the Department of Corrections in Pennsylvania, Wyatt Lim-Tepper, the founder and director of A Curiae, and Andrew Peck, the Undersecretary of Public Safety for Criminal Justice in Massachusetts, provide their perspectives on how we can be partners and companions, on the outside and inside. Dr. Darren Wheelock, of Marquette University, shares a perspective of incorporating data in our voices, inside and out.
And, you will be taken inside to hear the perspectives of students in the Regis University, Loyola University New Orleans, and St. Louis University prison education programs.
Would love to hear your voice on these reflections and Jesuit prison education. Send your comments to JPEN@regis.edu.
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