Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of
punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be
places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived
experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing,
anticipation, communication, education, connection, and community.
Arresting Hope does not present a romantic or nostalgic version of
the story of a provincial correctional centre for women. It
presents a story that acknowledges pressing challenges, but is also
eager to present a testimony to how hopefulness is possible in
prison. The editors of Arresting Hope promote hope because they
have been arrested by hope's possibilities. Arresting Hope tells a
story about women in a provincial prison in Canada, about how
creative leadership fostered opportunities for transformation and
hope, and about how engaging in research and writing contributed to
healing. The book includes poetry, stories, letters, interviews,
fragments of conversations, reflections, memories, quotations,
journal entries, creative nonfiction, and scholarly research.
Telling the whole story of a provincial correctional centre for
women is impossible, simply because there are so many stories lived
by so many people. Out of multiple and diverse possibilities
involving many people, Arresting Hope is focused on five women--a
prison doctor, a prison warden, a prison recreation therapist, a
prison educator, and a prison inmate--and their stories of grief,
desire, and hope. Readers of Arresting Hope Hope will re-trace the
warden's vision from its inception. Readers will share in the
prison doctor's journal entries and her exploration of, 'What is
health?' for women in prison. Readers of Arresting Hope will learn
about the ways that babies can live in prison. Readers will learn
about the role of a recreation therapist in prison and the
significance of Indigenous education in Canadian prisons. Readers
will learn about participatory health research processes of
transformation. Readers will be introduced to the narratives of
some incarcerated women, including Mo Korchinski. They will journey
with Mo Korchinski, from childhood through her revolving door
incarcerations until she arrives in this prison. Readers will
experience, in Mo's narratives and in her illustrations, the
transformations that occurred in this prison. Readers of Arresting
Hope will get to know Mo as prison inmate, writer and artist; they
will also come to know Mo as advocate, researcher, woman, mother
and grandmother.
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