“My Kids.” Poem by Day-Day
March 22, 2016 My kids I wonder where your mind are I hope missing daddy from afar My kids I know I made promises in the past That’s before I get my GED and now attending a college class My…
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Author Archive: Mikita Brottman
Inaugural Speeches
Guest posts, March 15 2016 Michael Whittlesey “Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, fellow citizens. I am not here today to tell you about policy reform – you have heard politician after politician speak about “Change.” I am NOT here today to…
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Topics in the Humanities 3/8/16
Guest post by Warren “Ren” Hynson All last week I read the handout “The School,” and I was confused. I felt the story was all over the place and I was lost. As I walked around the prison compound, everyone…
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Topic in the Humanities 2/23/2016
Inauguration Speech by Patrick Holmes, in response to guest visit by MICA professor John Barry My Fellow Americans, Today marks the dawn of a new age, a new beginning in which “We the People” will be reborn by an awakening…
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Topics in the Humanities, Feb 16 2016
Guest post by Sean Almond in response to class visit by conceptual artist Hugh Pocock I enjoyed the presentation you gave here at JCI. Your work and thoughts really opened my eyes to new concepts of what art is, or…
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Topics in the Humanities Feb 9 2016
Guest post by Shane Barnett We were honored to have Professor Paul Jaskunas from MICA present to us the first chapter of his novel “Cybelle” this past Tuesday, a story about the coming of age of a rural West Virginia…
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An Alternative to Incarceration Program
On April 30th 2014 students in Andrea Cantora’s Criminal Justice class presented their crime prevention program proposals. Here are the summaries of their proposed programs: Sunshine Acers – An Alternative to Incarceration Program “We have come up with an alternative…
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advanced literature, dec 6
We finished the class by watching the 1954 animated version of Animal Farm, directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, which is an interesting movie in its own right, but a very watered down version of Orwell’s allegory. I’m sure…
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advanced literature, dec 1
Animal Farm is starting to get depressing, but I think we all predicted that. And not all the animals are having a hard time. As top pig, Napoleon is in the pink. He’s even going to market and bringing home…
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advanced literature, nov 25
The men were not in a good mood today – and understandably so. According to a recent memo, the new DPSCS Secretary has decided that, from December 1, in order to curb the passing of contraband, there will be no…
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