{"product_id":"correctional-9780299335304","title":"Correctional","description":"The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center--a level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut--he met men who shared harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about the persistence of structural racism, the limitations of mass media, and the pervasive traumas of twenty-first-century daily life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shankar's bold and complex self-portrait--and portrait of America--challenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity and harm. \u003ci\u003eCorrectional \u003c\/i\u003edives into the inner workings of his mind and heart, framing his unexpected encounters with law and order through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immigrants. Vignettes from his early life set the scene for his spectacular fall and subsequent struggle to come to terms with his own demons. Many of them, it turns out, are also our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRavi Shankar is an award-winning author and editor of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry. He is the founder of \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, and has been featured in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and on BBC, NPR, and \u003ci\u003ePBS NewsHour\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner and their dogs, Annie and Rishi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496160235794,"sku":"9780299335304","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8cb43bb1-d806-4573-a3eb-e74638b89f2c.jpg?v=1730690852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/correctional-9780299335304","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}