Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it?
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Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders
14 mins | Apr 9, 2019
How to live a meaningful life in an unfair world. “I’d never envisioned teaching Austen's books to a room of men found guilty of making life deeply unfair for others,” confesses professor of English Devoney Looser, on giving her first lecture to convicted sex offenders. Here, she explains why she agreed to do it, and shares her learnings from the odd experience.
