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From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by jackmott »

I don't understand why we let people out of prison if we aren't prepared to actually let them out of prison. I'm not really bleeding heart about this, I'd be fine with any murder of this sort meaning life in prison. What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again. It only encourages people to revert to evil.

Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by justinpombrio »

sgift wrote: post #5

So, Harvard has professors that don't understand/accept the principles of rehabilitation. Sad, but, unfortunately, hardly shocking. There are many people like this all around the world.

From the professors:

"If officials who take a careful look at the case decide that Harvard should move forward, then we think that the university should do everything in its power and ability to welcome Jones here and support her, and we are indeed happy to play a part in that effort,” they continued. “We have stated our concerns as questions, and we hope they are treated as nothing more nor less than questions, not as an implicit or explicit judgment against a person and her candidacy.”

The administrators that actually made the decision did not comment.

Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by clarkm »

For those interested in what her PhD research is actually about, I managed to track down one of her papers:

> Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-Incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration

http://www.jpp.org/documents/back%20issues/JPP%2025-2.pdf

It looks like it's mostly about the Indiana Women's Prison History Project which she participated in.

Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by norswap »

clarkm wrote: post #7

For those interested in what her PhD research is actually about, I managed to track down one of her papers: > Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-Incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration http://www.jpp.org/documents/back%20issues/JPP%2025-2.pdf It looks like it's mostly about the Indiana Women's Prison History Project which she partici…

I'm actually disappointed by how meta that is. And puzzled by the fact that I'm that reaction.

Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by subroutine »

jackmott wrote: post #3

I don't understand why we let people out of prison if we aren't prepared to actually let them out of prison. I'm not really bleeding heart about this, I'd be fine with any murder of this sort meaning life in prison. What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again. It only encourages people to revert to evil.

Some quotes from the article makes it seem like they are more worried about the potential social and political backlash, than their personal beliefs on whether she has been rehabilitated.

> "We didn’t have some preconceived idea about crucifying Michelle,” said John Stauffer, one of the two American studies professors. “But frankly, we knew that anyone could just punch her crime into Google, and Fox News would probably say that P.C. liberal Harvard gave 200 grand of funding to a child murderer, who also happened to be a minority. I mean, c’mon.”

This is so cowardly.

Re: From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones

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Post by kbart »

jackmott wrote: post #3

I don't understand why we let people out of prison if we aren't prepared to actually let them out of prison. I'm not really bleeding heart about this, I'd be fine with any murder of this sort meaning life in prison. What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again. It only encourages people to revert to evil.

Agreed. Also, murdering a 4 year old child should lead to lifelong sentence in any case imho, so sorry, no sympathies here.
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