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Hilary Binda, AG03, founding director of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of the Tisch College of Civic Life, has been recognized by Medium for the course she teaches in prison. Mass Incarceration and the Literature of Confinement was ranked number two of seventeen "most innovative" classes of 2019-2020. The courses uses an “inside-out” model, with Tufts students taking the literature class alongside incarcerated individuals at a medium-security prison.

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Mass Incarceration and the Literature of Confinement

College students sometimes say that school can feel like a prison — particularly during midterm season. But students enrolled in Dr. Hilary Binda’s Mass Incarceration and the Literature of Confinement course at Tufts University know the difference.

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