Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
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LETTER 9: DOING TIME
1.Nalini Nadkarni, Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009).
LETTER 10: A LEAP OF FAITH
1.Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, trans. Alastair Hannay (New York: Penguin Classics, 1986).
LETTER 11: HER POINT OF VIEW
1.Victoria Anisman-Reiner, “Coping When a Loved One Is in Prison,” Suite 101, March 25, 2013, http://suite101.com/article/coping-when-a-loved-one-is-in -prison-a105398
2.Donald Braman, Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004).
3.The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, http://fcnetwork.org/
LETTER 12: HILL’S ASSIGNMENT
1.The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, http://fcnetwork.org/
2.Ibid.
LETTER 13: SMART ENOUGH
1.Deepak Chopra, and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being (New York: Harmony Books, 2012).
2.Ibid., 16.
LETTER 14: YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MIND DOWN
1.Janine Shepherd, “A Broken Body Isn’t a Broken Person.” Filmed October 2012. TED video, 18:58. Posted November 2012. http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_shepherd_a_broken_body_isn_t_a_broken_person.html.
2.Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, trans. Jeremy Leggatt (New York: Vintage, 1998).
LETTER 15: SHOULD I JOIN A GANG?
1.Stanley Tookie Williams, Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir (New York: Touchstone, 2007), xvii.
2.Available online at http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/2011-national -gang-threat-assessment.
LETTER 16: WHAT MAKES A MAN?
1.Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (New York: Borzoi Books, 2006).
2.Experiment explained in detail in Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009).
LETTER 21: STRAYING
1.Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (New York: Vintage, 1991), 276–77.
2.Cyrus Langhorne, “Becoming Eminem’s Hype Man Was Tough, ‘That’s Always Been Proof,’” XXL, February 3, 2011, appearing on SOHH.com at http://www.sohh.com/2011/02/eminem_recruited_mr_porter_for_hype _man.html.
LETTER 22: FORGIVING
1.Simone Weil, Attente de Dieu, trans. Brad Jersak, Clarion Journal, 2011, 155–57.
LETTER 23: MENTAL HEALTH
1.Available online at http://www.osborneny.org.
2.See a description of the Longtermers Responsibility Project at http://www .osborneny.org/programs.cfm?programID=19.
LETTER 25: FLICKING THE SWITCH
1.Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life (New York: Riverhead, 2003), 24, 98.
LETTER 26: END POINTS
1.50 Cent and Robert Greene, The 50th Law (New York: HarperStudio, 2009), 42–43.
2.“Backward Induction,” Wikipedia, last modified February 28, 2013, http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_induction.
LETTER 27: WARM-UPS
1.Gary Wolf, interview by Brooke Gladstone, “The Personal Data Revolution,” On the Media, NPR, May 13, 2011, http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/may/13/the-personal-data-revolution/.
LETTER 29: ERASING
1.Cindy Chang, “Prison Re-entry Programs Help Inmates Leave the Criminal Mindset Behind, But Few Have Access to the Classes,” The Times-Picayune, May 19, 2012, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/prison_re-entry _programs_help.html.
LETTER 30: TRUE ACCESS TO EDUCATION
1.Available online at bpi.bard.edu.
2.Available online at consortium.bard.edu.
3.For more information, contact University Courses for the Incarcerated at Ohio University Correctional Education, 102 Haning Hall, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701; 1-800-444-2420; or e-mail correctional@ohio.edu.
LETTER 31: GRIT AND GRIND
1.Cindy Chang, “Angola Inmates Are Taught Life Skills, Then Spend Their Lives Behind Bars,” The Times-Picayune, May 15, 2012, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/angola_inmates_are_taught_life.html.
2.Ibid.
3.Message available at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/119513/learning-to-program-without-a-computer.
4.Available online at http://csunplugged.org/books.
5.An article on the grit scale is at http://www.risk-within-reason.com/2011/12/02/grit-resilience. Longer explanations and discussion of the scale and its purpose can be found in Angela Lee Duckworth and Patrick D. Quinn, “Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S),” Journal of Personality Assessment 91, no. 2 (2009): 166–74, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/Duckworth%20and%20Quinn.pdf; and Angela L. Duckworth, Christopher Peterson, Michael D. Matthews, and Dennis R. Kelly, “Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 92, no. 6 (2007): 1087–1101, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/ images/Grit%20JPSP.pdf.
LETTER 34: CHANGING YOUR TUNE
1.A profile on Pincus can be found at http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark -pincus.
LETTER 35: UNEQUAL JUST US
1.Their official website can be found online at http://eji.org.
2.Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers’ Guild, Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations of Your Rights in Prison, 5th edition, (New York: Center for Constitutional Rights, 2010), 43–44.
LETTER 36: OUT THERE
1.City Bar Justice Center, Reentry Law Project: Small Business Toolkit, page 5, http://www2.nycbar.org/citybarjusticecenter/pdf/Reentry_Toolkit_April09 .pdf.
2.Ibid., 2.
3.Your New York State Rap Sheet: A Guide to Getting, Understanding and Correcting Your Criminal Record. Available online at http://www.lac.org/ doc_library/lac/publications/YourRapSheet.pdf.
4.Reentry Law Project, 13–18.
LETTER 37: A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
1.Stephen Kurczy, “Catherine Rohr Helps Ex-Cons Return to Society by Learning to Start Businesses,” The Christian Science Monitor, April 23, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2012/0423/Catherine -Rohr-helps-ex-cons-return-to-society-by-learning-to-start-businesses
2.Ibid.
3.Connections 2012” and “the Job Search” was written by Stephan Likosky, former Correctional Services Librarian for the New York Public Library. It was updated for the 2012 edition by Nick Higgins, current Correctional Services Librarian; Katie Banks; Laurie Drago; Emily Jacobson; Keisha Miller; Mariela Quintana; Madeleine Schwartz; Erica Scott; and Caitlin Wilson.
4.Nick Higgins, ed., Connections 2012: A Guide for Formerly Incarcerated People to Information Sources in New York City (New York: The New York Public Library, 2012).
OWNER’S MANUAL
1.Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).