Silke Marynissen is a PhD fellow conducting fundamental research for the Flemish Research Foundation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). Her research focuses on informal learning and music participation in prison, viewed from the perspective of realist science. She is a member of the research group Participation and Learning in Detention (PALD).
Countries around the world have disparate experiences with education in prison. For decades, the United States has been locked in a pattern of exceptionally...