Daily News columnist Errol Louis will serve as the Jack Newfield Professor
in the spring semester, offering a course in urban investigative journalism to
selected students in Film & Media and Integrated Media Arts.
In the course, titled “Crime, Punishment and the Inner-City: How to Stop
Spinning the Revolving Door Between the Street Corner and the Prison,” students
will examine two neighborhoods–the South Bronx and Central Harlem–and produce
a series of multi-media reports on how the policies of prison officials,
prosecutors and parole and probation departments have created an expensive
revolving door between low-income neighborhoods and New York’s jails and
prisons.