Prisons, Profit, and Human Beings
Art by Luke Atkinson
The American criminal “justice” system has metastasized in the last 30 years, ensnaring unprecedented numbers of human beings in its web of militarized police operations, prisons, jails, courts, and community supervision programs. Building on material covered in Mass Incarceration in America, this class examines the role the pursuit of profit and financial incentives plays in the expansion and perpetuation of state violence that characterizes everyday life for (some) American communities.
You need not have attended Mass Incarceration in America to understand and benefit from this class.
Location
The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Moot Court Room
Washington,
DC
20004
Past event