How to Get Fired at SSCF

On Wednesday, November 6, the Brattleboro Commons published a piece in their Voices section, Prison Educator Fired for Writing a Poem. The poem itself was also published, Elegy to Gary Partridge. If you have not read these pieces, I strongly urge you to do so. They are very moving, and describe an ongoing situation at our Vermont prisons that affects the safety of the residents there, particularly neurodivergent people. Below is the letter to the editor I wrote and which was published the following week.

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