Northwestern Insider Volume 1, Issue 1 cover showing NPEP graduates applauding in purple academic gowns. — Cover photo credit not located; review pending.

Volume 1 · Issue 1 · 2024

Issue 1

The first Northwestern Insider brings together education, restorative justice, poetry, reviews, and news from the NPEP community.

Read the issue online ↓Original edition (PDF, 68 pages)

In this issue

Page numbers match the print edition

Front matter

Education

Turning Prisons Into Classrooms
Anthony Ehlers
Page 9
How Northwestern Saved My Life
Tony Triplett
Page 11
Education Gave Me a Voice
Blanca Solis
Page 13

Restorative justice

Reviews & responses

Call & Response: 42 and Freedom
Erika Ray, Andre “Dre” Patterson, and Broderick Hollins
Page 20
Shining a Light on the Criminal Legal System
Tony Triplett
Page 25

Inside the classroom

Poetry

Oxytocin
“Karim” James Hale
Page 36
Faith/Fate
Shurese Resé Bailey
Page 38
I'm Right Here
LeShun Smith
Page 39
Butterfly
Ian Valencia
Page 40
Lucky Roach / Cucaracha Suertuda
Miguel Garcia
Page 41

Law & incarceration

Profiles & interviews

Community