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112 Supplanting The Prison Industrial Complex -Derik Smith, Angel M. Solis, Tyee Griffith
For a half-century now, the US has undertaken an historically unprecedented experiment with human incarceration. Our society has organized itself around a system of punishment that now locks away millions of people. As most know, the members of the human family that we imprison usually come from the least resourced communities, and from Black and Hispanic communities. This panel discussion will consider contemporary incarceration practices in the US, and how these practices might be supplanted by those who believe in the oneness of humanity, and the need to establish just relationships between all people.
See also Dr. Smith’s May 2018 talk Racial Justice: Mass Incarceration in America (BahaiTeachings.org) and his June 2020 WI webinar “Centering the Pupil of the Eye.”
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND RESOURCES FROM PANELISTS
Books
Prison Race, by Dr. Renford Reese
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Makes me Wanna Holler, by Nathan McCall
Before the Mayflower, by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Wacquant, Loic. Punishing the Poor
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Websites
untilfreedom.com
grassrootslaw.org
The Abolitionist Toolkit:
criticalresistance.org/resources/the-abolitionist-toolkit/
Quote
“We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.” –Shoghi Effendi
See also: bahai.org/action/response-call-bahaullah/
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND RESOURCES FROM ATTENDEES
Books
Becoming Ms. Burton, by Susan Burton
The Will to Change, by bell hooks
Blood In My Eye, by George Jackson
Howard Zehr: Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
Miscellaneous Resources
Documentary Film: 13th (Ava Duvernay)
Every work by Bryan Stevenson (Book, TedTalk, everything)
PBS – College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by filmmaker Lynn Novic
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For a half-century now, the US has undertaken an historically unprecedented experiment with human incarceration. Our society has organized itself around a system of punishment that now locks away millions of people. As most know, the members of the human family that we imprison usually come from the least resourced communities, and from Black and Hispanic communities. This panel discussion will consider contemporary incarceration practices in the US, and how these practices might be supplanted by those who believe in the oneness of humanity, and the need to establish just relationships between all people.
See also Dr. Smith’s May 2018 talk Racial Justice: Mass Incarceration in America (BahaiTeachings.org) and his June 2020 WI webinar “Centering the Pupil of the Eye.”
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND RESOURCES FROM PANELISTS
Books
Prison Race, by Dr. Renford Reese
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Makes me Wanna Holler, by Nathan McCall
Before the Mayflower, by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Wacquant, Loic. Punishing the Poor
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Websites
untilfreedom.com
grassrootslaw.org
The Abolitionist Toolkit:
criticalresistance.org/resources/the-abolitionist-toolkit/
Quote
“We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.” –Shoghi Effendi
See also: bahai.org/action/response-call-bahaullah/
RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND RESOURCES FROM ATTENDEES
Books
Becoming Ms. Burton, by Susan Burton
The Will to Change, by bell hooks
Blood In My Eye, by George Jackson
Howard Zehr: Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
Miscellaneous Resources
Documentary Film: 13th (Ava Duvernay)
Every work by Bryan Stevenson (Book, TedTalk, everything)
PBS – College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by filmmaker Lynn Novic
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