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LGBTQ History in Your Curriculum: Course Integration

Interested in incorporating LGBTQ history into your curriculum? Need new ideas for conducting research to support your class assignments and projects? Let us help! In this workshop, we will research LGBTQ history and apply it to a current course.

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Textbook: American Corrections

This textbook includes a discussion of special populations who are incarceration in prison, to include elderly, mentally ill, and long-term prisoners.  Prisoners with HIV/AIDS are discussed as a special population in the text book, but the text does not extend specifically to LGBTQ prisoners and their unique needs.  

Consequently, I created an additional assignment to introduce students to the increasingly important issue of how prison administration and staff can keep LGBTQ prisoners safe and afford them access to programming without incurring unreasonable costs that the prison could not sustain.

 

Assignment

Prison staff segregate prisoners for various reasons, including disciplinary measures and safety concerns.  LGBTQ inmates may need additional protection from the general inmate population.  However, isolation in solitary confinement or other segregation may create unintended consequences for the inmate, such as the negative effects of solitary confinement on mental wellness, or lack of access to programming such as education or recreating opportunities. 

In a team of 4 people, design a strategy for protecting LGBTQ inmates without segregation, or in a way that minimizes the negative impact of segregation.

Start by researching the general topic of segregating inmates and then focus more specifically on the population of LGBTQ prisoners.

Special Populations - LGBTQ not addressed in textbook!

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