{"title":"The Open University Law School’s Public Legal Education in Prisons: Contributing to Rehabilitative Prison Culture","authors":"Keren Lloyd Bright, Maria McNicholl","doi":"10.19164/ijple.v5i1.1123","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is a massive unmet need for legal knowledge in prisons. The Open University Law School, through its Open Justice Centre, has trialled various ways in which to meet this unmet need. Most prison-university partnerships in England and Wales follow a model of prisoners and university students being taught together as one group in a traditional higher education learning format. The Open University Law School’s public legal education in prisons follows instead the Street Law model to disseminate knowledge of the law throughout a prison, either through prison radio or through the work of the charity St Giles Trust. While this article confirms other research findings which evidence the personal benefit law students derive in researching and delivering audience-appropriate public legal education, it also considers the benefit for those imprisoned in the context of rehabilitative prison culture.","PeriodicalId":332351,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Legal Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Public Legal Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.19164/ijple.v5i1.1123","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There is a massive unmet need for legal knowledge in prisons. The Open University Law School, through its Open Justice Centre, has trialled various ways in which to meet this unmet need. Most prison-university partnerships in England and Wales follow a model of prisoners and university students being taught together as one group in a traditional higher education learning format. The Open University Law School’s public legal education in prisons follows instead the Street Law model to disseminate knowledge of the law throughout a prison, either through prison radio or through the work of the charity St Giles Trust. While this article confirms other research findings which evidence the personal benefit law students derive in researching and delivering audience-appropriate public legal education, it also considers the benefit for those imprisoned in the context of rehabilitative prison culture.
监狱对法律知识的需求大量未得到满足。开放大学法学院通过其开放司法中心尝试了各种方法来满足这一未满足的需求。在英格兰和威尔士,大多数监狱与大学的合作都遵循一种模式,即囚犯和大学生作为一个群体在传统的高等教育学习模式中一起学习。英国开放大学法学院(Open University Law School)在监狱开展的公共法律教育采用的是街头法模式,通过监狱广播或慈善机构圣吉尔斯信托基金会(St Giles Trust)的工作,在整个监狱传播法律知识。虽然本文证实了其他研究结果,证明法律学生在研究和提供适合受众的公共法律教育中获得的个人利益,但它也考虑了在监狱文化改造背景下被监禁者的利益。