{"id":41149,"date":"2025-05-10T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:16:47","slug":"the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The prison classroom was where she could finally be herself. Now it\u2019s gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered at a Maine detention center for 10 years. Then the Trump administration cut its programs \u2013 because we made space for women like Ashley<\/p>\n<p>Every Monday for over a decade, I left my home on Peaks Island, Maine, boarded a ferry to town then drove inland to the Maine correctional center to lead a creative writing class for incarcerated women.<\/p>\n<p>After a 30-minute drive, I park my car, walk to the facility, leave my cellphone and keys with the front desk guard, walk through a metal detector and several sets of sliding doors until I reach the women\u2019s unit. My classroom is a tiny space, bare bones, with plastic chairs, cinderblock walls and fluorescent lights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/10\/the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered at a Maine detention center for 10 years. Then the Trump administration cut its programs \u2013 because we made space for women like Ashley Every Monday for over a decade, I left my home on Peaks Island, Maine, boarded a ferry to town then drove inland to the Maine correctional center to lead &#8230; <a title=\"The prison classroom was where she could finally be herself. Now it\u2019s gone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/the-prison-classroom-was-where-she-could-finally-be-herself-now-its-gone\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The prison classroom was where she could finally be herself. Now it\u2019s gone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}