Political prisoners organized peer education courses in Italian detention.

Evidence

After Gramsci’s arrest, he was taken to the island of Ustica off the north coast of Sicily. The six weeks he spent in detention there were the last in which he enjoyed a relative freedom of movement and of extended contact with other militants. Among his fellow-prisoners was Bordiga, and the two collaborated in organising education courses for the political detainees. Gramsci taught history and geography and studied German: Bordiga was in charge of the scientific side. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 227

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Isolation plus supervised assembly was meant to train prisoners into social individuals — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 365; Prison education once enabled transformative self-creation even against the regime — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 146; Teaching in prison means teaching with the prison’s governing constraints — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 402
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Isolation plus supervised assembly was meant to train prisoners into social individuals — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 365; Prison education once enabled transformative self-creation even against the regime — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 146; Teaching in prison means teaching with the prison’s governing constraints — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 402