Encouraging and Supporting Publicly Engaged Philosophical Research and Practices

Crime, Punishment, and Mass Incarceration

Information

Members: 12
Latest Activity: Mar 22

1 member likes this

Started by Rita Manning. Last reply by John Douglas Macready Oct 22, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Frontline is doing a documentary, Lost in Detention, about immigration detention tonight 10/18.

Comment

Comment by Mechthild Nagel on March 2, 2013 at 12:29pm: hi Stephen, good to know that MacArthur is getting involved in this discussion. Perhaps this is a good time to announce a major conference on prison/penal abolition at Ottawa in June 2014. I am part of that organizing committee (ICOPA) and will be bringing flyers to Atlanta.

Comment by Stephen Randolph Stinson on February 26, 2013 at 4:00pm: The MacArthur Foundation, where I work, is starting to think about mass incarceration and how philanthropy can tackle this. Review of the literature and of the landscape has begun and is ongoing. A systems reform approach by MacArthur is likely, but no action has been taken yet. A research network on the punishment paradigm is also likely in 2014. But that is a separate, though complementary, track from the work of concrete reform. Stay tuned. I look forward to discussing with you in Atlanta.

Comment by Mechthild Nagel on February 5, 2013 at 10:20pm: Hi Grace, thanks for sharing news about the film. I seem to be more in sync with the film's message than that of the reviewer though. Maybe because I read Parenti's Lockdown America, Davis' Abolition Democracy, and Alexander, The New Jim Crow?

Best,
Mecke

Comment by Grace Hunt on February 4, 2013 at 7:06pm: Here is a review of Jarecki's film _The House I Live In_, written by a colleague of mine from Bard Prison Initiative. http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=9068

Comment by Grace Hunt on February 4, 2013 at 7:05pm: Hello all, have you all seen Eugene Jarecki's new documentary, _The House I Live In_?

The tag line says it's about how the "War on Drugs" has failed, but it's really about how it is doomed succeed in ruining poor American families. Here is the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8

Comment by Mechthild Nagel on January 12, 2013 at 12:40pm: hi, hope to meet you all at the Atlanta conference. Thanks, Brady, for your leadership.

I am particularly interested in decarceration and abolition.

Mecke