Danny Hajek

Gabriel Gudding outside the Marshall County Correctional Facility in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he founded the Marshall County Correctional Facility Writing Program.  Photo taken March 2002.

Gabriel Gudding, associate professor of the English studies department at Illinois State University, began teaching at Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, New York in 1999.  He found the experience exceptionally rewarding, and has continued to volunteer at local prisons including facilities in Mississippi and Illinois.