I have a friend in my program (not exactly EA, but EA curious and a great guy) who has done a good deal of work with an organization that teaches and discusses philosophy with prisoners. If you would like, I can ask him if he would mind being put in touch, as he might have some useful insights/connections.
Yes, that would be great. Thank you!
I am new to the forum so I don't know what the usual level of contact info sharing is here. Let me know what works best for you.
No problem, welcome to the forum! You can feel free to share whatever you’re comfortable with, but personally I would recommend you don’t post your email address in the comments, as there was recently someone webcrawling the forum for email addresses to send a scam email to. I would reserve information like that to DMs, my own plan is to DM you his email address if and when he gives me his approval. If you’d prefer, feel free to give me your email address and I can send it to him instead, again, whatever works best for you.
Joeri Kooimans is/was teaching philosophy in prison, so maybe you could talk to him?
Thanks! I will reach out to him.
Can't wait for EAGuantanamo! Kidding of course, but I'm not sure how valuable it'd be given how difficult it is for former convicts to get jobs (e.g. low expected earnings to contribute to high impact charities down the line). But for groups doing work on recidivism and the like, I do hope they are recruiting out of pools of ex-cons to really understand what the problems are that folks face.
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