{"id":32032,"date":"2012-10-26T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32032"},"modified":"2012-10-26T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:46:12","slug":"shakespeare-in-shackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/26\/shakespeare-in-shackles\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in Shackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/laura_bates_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Inmates who endure years in solitary confinement are often written off by authorities, and lack programs for education and\/or rehabilitation. <\/p>\n<p>But one academic, over a decade ago, tried an audacious experiment of teaching Shakespeare to solitary confined prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>On October 25, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Dr. Laura Bates, an English Professor at Indiana State University who launched her Shakespeare in Shackles program &#8211; the first of its kind &#8211; in Indiana\u2019s Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, and has expanded the highly successful program to other facilities. Her forthcoming book about the program is entitled \u201cShakespeare Saved My Life\u201d: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Av9omBnxw74\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmates who endure years in solitary confinement are often written off by authorities, and lack programs for education and\/or rehabilitation. But one academic, over a decade ago, tried an audacious experiment of teaching Shakespeare to solitary confined prisoners. On October 25, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Dr. Laura Bates, an English Professor at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32037,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions\/32037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}