| Description | “Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla” book launch & panel discussion
January 22 | 6 pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
North Creek Event Center (NCEC) Please join the University of Washington Libraries and University Press for a book launch and panel discussion in celebration of the second edition of the book, Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla, by Ethan Hoffman and John McCoy. Speakers will include:
- John McCoy, Concrete Mama’s original author
- Dan Berger, prison scholar and contributor to the new edition
- Gerard Boseman, UW student, Black Prisoners Caucus
- Amani Sawari, independent journalist and national spokesperson for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
- Ed Mead and Mark Cook, activists formerly incarcerated at Walla Walla (Mead is featured in Concrete Mama; Cook cofounded the Black Panther Party chapter at the penitentiary)
This event also showcases The Washington Prison History Project. This project provides researchers, policy-makers, students, and others with artifacts related to the history and ongoing reality of mass incarceration in Washington state. See: http://waprisonhistory.org/. |
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