VCU Screening of "The Prison in 12 Landscapes" followed by Q&A with Director Brett Story

Thursday, February 9th 2017, from 5:30-8pm, in Room 1107 of VCU's Academic Learning Commons (1000 Floyd Avenue, Richmond VA), there will be a screening of the documentary "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes," followed by a Q&A and discussion with director Brett Story. 

"A meditation on the prison system in the era of mass incarceration, THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES unfolds as a journey across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives: from a California mountainside where incarcerated women fight raging forest fires; to a Bronx business which helps families send approved care packages to loved ones behind bars; to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. Without showing an actual prison, the film explores the ways in which the prison system is deeply entrenched in American society, and the pervasive (but not always visible) ways it affects policy-making, policing, the economy, and the shaping of places where we live."

Free, open to the public. The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms. This event is co-sponsored by the VCU Department of Sociology and the VCU Common Book Program. 

For more info and to RSVP, see this link. If you can't make it to this event, there is an identical showing the previous day– for the Wednesday showing of this documentary, see this link. To add either event to your Google Calendar, click here.