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Students in the two-week Field Study of Criminal Justice Reform and Innovation in Sweden course last June offered an overview of their experiences to an engaged audience of students and faculty.

For his 2017 Emerson project, Marquis Palmer ’18 is filming a short documentary, based in his home city of Utica, about the experience of losing a loved one to the prison system.

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Discovering the Ethical Prison, by Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences, was recently published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Doran Larson’s essay addressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced return to a pre-Obama policy of seeking maximum penalties for all drug crimes as well as the mismanagement of the prison system.

Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences, presented “The Prison Writer as Witness: Introducing the American Prison Writing Archive” at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium on June 19.

Twelve Hamilton students visited Sweden for a two-week study trip, looking at Swedish prisons, courts and policing practice. Ryan Bloom ’18 blogged about the trip. Following is her final update about a visit to border control, a police precinct and the court.

From providing a virtual look at India’s sacred centers to collecting oral histories in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) provides students an interdisciplinary — and often interactive — approach to collaborating with faculty.

Hamilton Professor Doran Larson’s American Prison Writing Archive project has been awarded $262,000 by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the single largest NEH grant awarded solely to a Hamilton faculty member in 17 years.

“I’d rather die than suffer another day as one of the obedient, silent ones,” said award-winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca during his public reading in the Chapel on March 1.

The Los Angeles Review of Books described Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America as “an important work” in an Oct. 8 review titled “Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Edited by Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson, Fourth City is a collection of 71 essays by current and former prisoners on a wide range of topics about prison life, solicited over approximately five years.