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The historian who brings lessons on US prisons inside their walls

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?– From Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

This is the question the historian Reiko Hillyer asks to open her class, ‘The History of Crime and Punishment in the United States’, held inside a minimum-security correctional facility in Portland, Oregon. Hillyer has taught the course, which is evenly split between incarcerated students and undergraduates from nearby Lewis & Clark College, since 2012, exploring the history, purpose........

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