Wadhams Lecture Series: Robert Harsh Teaches Prisoners

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Moriah Shock: Learning to Leave by Robert Harsh – Wednesday, May 22, at 7:30pm

Reber resident Bob Harsh has been spending some time in prison. As a guest speaker at one of the Wadhams Library’s Wednesdays in Wadhams lecture series he will talk about his recent work as a volunteer helping prisoners learn to read.

Robert Harsh is a retired counselor and adjunct faculty member at SUNY Plattsburgh. He has taught sociology courses at two state prisons in the region, including a course on the history of prisons at the maximum-security Dannemora Correctional Facility. He currently tutors for Literacy Volunteers at the Moriah Shock facility.

He will give us an inside look at volunteering in prison as well as a brief review the history of American prisons focusing on the institutional structure and individual experience of incarceration. (Wadhams Free Library)

As with all of the library’s Wednesday lectures this event is free and open to the public!

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