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Jane Guttman

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Jane Guttman is a correctional educator who works inside a juvenile jail facility. Her passion includes developing and delivering strong literacy interventions, and bringing attention and resolution to the looming injustices for incarcerated children. Dr. Guttman has presented workshops for teachers, counselors and correctional officers during her teaching tenure and is a contributing author to the first textbook for a correctional education advanced degree program, In the Borderlands, 2006. Her quest is to bring humanism to all facets of correctional education and incarceration.

KIDS in Jail, Jane’s upcoming book, addresses the indignity of custody for kids. This narrative emerged from Jane’s work inside a juvenile hall school for the past 14 years. She has seen a range of incidents, cruelty, and traumas that kids have endured in the juvenile system, and has responded with this publication. Jane hopes in the telling of this story that reform will continue to be forthcoming. Jane is a nationally published writer, a poet, and has been in love with words for over a half century.

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Speaking Out for KIDS in Jail Speaking Out addresses the agonies of life for kids in custody. Features an upcoming book, KIDS in Jail, which gives readers a glimpse of life inside for thousands of kids. A story to foster reform in a severely fractured system for children, sometimes referred to as throwaways, and to bring interventions that will move kids back in the mainstream of life instead of becoming a casualty of the cradle to prison pipeline.

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