Unlocking Minds in Lockup: Prison Education Opens Doors

Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you inmates choosing to learn, think and prepare for release to their communities as contributing adults and involved parents. She taught parenting, family relationships and social responsibility classes inside women’s and men’s prisons for 18 years. She developed curriculum specific to her students needs, wrote textbooks adopted by correctional educators and advocated for the rights of children of incarcerated parents. This book is the author’s story of the challenges and rewards unique to teaching inside.