Welcome to Unmaking the Prison Image, a three-episode series exploring the role documentary film can play in imagining a world without prisons. Host Pooja Rangan speaks with filmmakers, scholars, and system-impacted artists and organizers who are rethinking the role documentary plays in shaping how we see, and imagine, prisons.

Unmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz, directed by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson. Podcast produced by Alex Moore, Louise Leong, and Pooja Rangan. Eric “Maserati E” Abercrombie is our editor and sound designer. The theme music for Visualizing Abolition is Pray by Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. Our cover art features an image from Christopher Harris’s still/here. Transcripts available at https://ias.ucsc.edu/unmaking-the-prison-image/