Adam Szetela, Ph.D. student in the literatures in English department, published an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed titled "Censoring a Poet Isn’t the Answer:"
"I have never met a prison volunteer who supports crime. But most prison volunteers believe that a criminal can reform and move beyond their crime. As one of my colleagues from the Prison Mindfulness Institute once said to me, 'We all have the Buddha inside of us.' In other words, we all have the potential to have compassion for ourselves and each other. Just as I have compassion for the victims of sexual abuse, I also have compassion for their abusers. I also don’t think it’s my place to bar writers from publication after they are released from prison."
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Adam Szetela is a writer who splits his time between Ithaca, New York, and Boston. Before coming to Cornell, Szetela was a visiting fellow in the history department at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Program on the Study of Capitalism. His work looks at capitalism, culture, and moral politics in the United States.
