Patrons who value the Library's services may not be aware of how much we rely on the generous volunteer help of our friends in the community. Without them, we wouldn't have a Library at all.

Robert Harsh is a retired counselor and adjunct faculty member at SUNY Plattsburgh. He has taught sociology courses at two state prisons in the region, including a course on the history of prisons at the maximum-security Dannemora Correctional Facility. He currently tutors for Literacy Volunteers at the Moriah Shock facility.

He will give us an inside look at volunteering in prison as well as a brief review the history of American prisons focusing on the institutional structure and individual experience of incarceration.