THIS WEEK IN THE STUDENT PRESS REPORT:
These community college journalists are giving incarcerated students a voice
A Scripps Howard fellowship at Chaffey College in California helps student journalists train and publish incarcerated writers.
In November, I was anxiously preparing for an interview unlike any other I’d conducted.
I sat nervously in my bedroom, staring into my laptop, when suddenly I was face-to-face with James Menefield, a participant in Chaffey College’s Rising Scholars program, which is designed to provide educational opportunities to incarcerated people.
Over email, he had been kind and eager to be interviewed after his release from the California Institution for Men in Chino, California. He credited Chaffey College — where we have both been enrolled — for changing his life.
It turns out, my nerves had been unnecessary — and my passion for carceral journalism was born.
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