Prison Industrial Complex

The first weekend of November I attended a two day class on the Prison Industrial Complex. It was a weekend workshop offered by the sociology department. We read "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis as a requirement for the class.




On Saturday after the class, Bar None a prison abolition group was celebrating their 10 year anniversary.










There was an example of what a solitary housing unit feels like.







There was some amazing artwork~











The evening had a variety of speakers and people reading letters that prisoners had written to Bar None to mark their ten year anniversary. Some of them were so moving, but I feel the most intense moving part of the evening was having a gentleman who had just gotten out of prison speak. He spoke so honestly about his crime and incarceration and the time he spent in the shu.

All in all it was an informative and intense weekend.