Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND This special issue of Journal of Prisoners on Prisons(JPP) focuses on Walls to Bridges, a prison education program that brings together incarcerated and non-incarcerated students for university and college classes in a prison setting.Inspired by the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program based in the United States, Walls to Brides (W2B) Canada was established in 2011.W2B began as a single university course off ered through the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier), which took place in a prison classroom at Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI) in Kitchener, Ontario.The national offi ce is located in the Faculty of Social Work at Laurier, with the heart of the program being a collective of incarcerated women at GVI (the GVI Collective) and formerly incarcerated women in Ontario (the Ontario Community Collective).The GVI Collective functions as a steering committee for the National W2B offi ce and are the central trainers for a specialized immersive fi ve-day instructor training required for educators who wish to teach a W2B class.W2B challenges the artifi cial boundaries between people experiencing imprisonment and those who are not; a notion that is refl ected in the W2B byline: "We are One, Not the Other".Beginning as a sole pilot class, W2B's reach now extends to four Canadian provinces and one European country (France).To date, 73 classes from 15 universities/colleges and correctional facilities have been off ered, providing 1,263 students with a W2B educational opportunity.Classes are off ered in a wide array of disciplines such as Social Work, Gender Studies, Criminology, Literature, and Philosophy, making the national program interdisciplinary and intersectoral -bridging academic and correctional institutions.Alongside the goal of reducing barriers to post-secondary education in carceral settings, W2B seeks to challenge traditional Western approaches to education (premised on a hierarchy between teachers and learners, and a one-way transmission of knowledge), along with the stereotypes and stigma so often associated with people who are incarcerated.Indigenous and Black peoples are signifi cantly overrepresented in Canadian prisons (Offi ce of the Correctional Investigator, 2017; 2020), making access to education also an
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.270 | 0.103 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".