Four top books to assign to inmate-students

Joseph H. Cooper was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996. He teaches ethics and media law courses at Quinnipiac University.

He shared with the Christian Science Monitor a list of over a dozen books he considered assigning to a group of inmate-students. Great Expectations and The Executioner’s Song did not make the final cut, but the following did:"The Green Mile"

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