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Film explores rehabilitation and punishment in Kansas prisons
Lawrence professor Jacob Gordon is producing a half hour film with KU and Lawrence collaborators showing life in Kansas State Penitentiary. The project funded by a $13 615 grant from the Kansas Committee for the Humanities aims to spark debate on whether prisons should rehabilitate or punish inmates and how ex offenders can reenter society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Gordon
Kansas University
Gordon
Lawrence
Kansas Committee For the Humanities
Kansas
William Tuttle
Richard Colyer
Dorthy Pennington
Michael Herczmarek
Tom Wheat
Bureau of Child Research
Chuck Bemis
Kansas State Penitentiary
Seven Steps Foundation
Lifers Club
KSP Jaycees
Gordon’s
KSP
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Penitentiary
Lawrence, Kan
KCH
National Endowment For the Humanities