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What could your students learn from educated formerly incarcerated people who love Shakespeare. TOOJ presents powerful online workshops using Shakespeares plays paired with original Prison Monologues as platforms to consider the power of education issues of inequity power family forgiveness redemption honor and more. Working together we can broaden horizons and encourage critical thinking and better citizenship. This is a timely and remarkable project Professor James Shapiro Shakespeare scholar Columbia University Auction example of an original TOOJ Prison Monologue.