Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Openings and introductions: education for the many, prison for the few 1
6. From prisoner to student 11
7. Pioneers and politics: Open University journeys in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972–75 33
8. A university without walls 51
9. Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future 73
10. The light to fight the shadows: on education as liberation 97
11. From despair to hope 111
12. Straight up! From HMP to PhD 125
13. From Open University in prison to convict criminology upon release: mind the gap 139
14. From the school of hard knocks to the university of hard locks 153
15. Becoming me with The Open University 165
16. From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish journey 179
17. Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education 195
18. What the OU did for me 213
19. Appendix: Study with The Open University 225
20. Index 227