Education : life or death -- A tough sell : education and incarceration -- The geography of incarceration : the glass bubble in the big house -- I thirst for knowledge : the quality of incarcerated intelligence -- Surveillance and control : no hugs for thugs -- Rewriting the self : I will write myself out of prison -- Writing in the dark : profiles of incarcerated learners -- Interrupting the school to prison pipeline : what if I had started to write in high school? -- Words no bars can hold : songs from the genius child.