Jean Trounstine

Jean Trounstine is an author/editor of five published books and many articles, a professor at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts, and a prison activist. For 10 years, she worked at Framingham Women's Prison and directed eight plays, publishing Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women's Prison about that work. She blogs for Boston Magazine, takes apart the criminal justice system brick by brick at jeantrounstine.com where she blogs weekly at "Justice with Jean," and is a regular contributor to The Rag Blog.