written by vickie law, giving a general overview and michelle delong and rebecca ginsburg and others on censorship. we discuss the experience of teaching inside as well as the perspective of formerly incarcerated. speaking about the obstacles to and the relationship between the student and the teacher while inside, we also talk about the origins stories of some of these programs, including asheville prison books and appalachian prison books project. i was one of the co-founders of the asheville prison books program, and we were the first prison program, prison books program in the entire south. we naively tried to serve the entire southeast and were quickly overwhelmed. we operated on a shoestring budget and we didn't give up. actual prison books is still books to incarcerated people. 25 years later. in fact, there are now multiple programs operating in the south and several of those can connect their origin story directly back to asheville prison, which we can talk about, if you like. we talk about some of the efforts of the movement as a whole that we've made to cooperate one anoth