The COVID-19 pandemic brought the failures of health systems in prisons and jails to the forefront. In an effort to continue the conversation, the Prison Education Project (PEP) will host a panel to discuss how mass incarceration continues to threaten public health and exacerbate existing health inequities.
Panelists include George Putney, a PEP alumnus and current Brown School student; ML Smith, the Founder/Director of the Missouri Justice Coalition and the Co-Director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty; and Ella Siegrist, a PEP instructor and PhD student whose work examines the role of the carceral state in shaping racialized health trajectories and reproductive decisions.
Please join us on Monday, Oct. 16 from 4 to 6 p.m. in uplifting the voices of system-impacted people and learning about opportunities to redress this crisis locally and nationally.