Alrighty so this weeks photo of the week is a little late I sorry about that! But it is more of a serious conversation that has really been pulling at my heart strings for quite sometime now since August upon first looking into the topic. Below you will find photos from a documentary and panel discussion that I attended called "Broken On All Sides." It was a really informative and challenging discussion on mass incarceration in the United States. The Panel discussed everything from the privatization of the Prison system (including the new stadium by Geo Global in Florida), the conditions while in prison, the "prison pipeline" and what we as concerned citizens see and can actually do. I must admit I left the panel with a heavy heart after hearing testimonies and a motivated spirit to at least continue to talk about these issues that some of the most prophetic voices of our time are highlighting. More to come just with some thoughts!
There was a pretty great turn out where about 100 people piled into a basement theatre in Midtown.
I think it was the panel that was the most fascinating for me. From left to right there was the documentary's director, a man who began a nonprofit built to aid those transitioning from prison and a prior inmate, the Vice President of the Law Office Guild and finally a former detainee studying Social Work (with a perspective of what the prisons are actually like on the inside and highlighting the difficulties from a first hand perspective).
