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The Prison Studies Group
The Prison Studies Group is a student-run organization that promotes critical, interdisciplinary, scholarly examination of the prison, and criminal and juvenile justice systems — local and global, contemporary and historical. The group is chartered by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Doctoral Student Council.
Recent group activity
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post PEN Festival: "Frozen in Time–Racist Traditions and the Prison System" & "The Lock and Key" in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 1 month, 2 weeks agoFrozen in Time: Racist Traditions and the Prison System
Saturday, May 04, 3 – 4:30pm
Cooper Union: Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square, NYC
With Soffiyah Elijah, Laura Kurgan, Marc Mauer, Susan […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration – Nicole Fleetwood (5/3/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 1 month, 2 weeks agoCarceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Nicole Fleetwood (Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers)
Fri 5/3 @ 2PM – Room 4406, English Lounge, Graduate Center, […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice (4/12/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 2 months, 2 weeks agoJoin the Prison Studies Group for our Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Friday, April 12 at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
“Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice” […]
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Isa Vasquez joined the group
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Call for Blog Post Authors – Featured Analysis in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 2 weeks agoCan you fill in these blanks with any of the following terms?
police, jail, prison, reentry, the war on drugs, criminal justice, felony disenfranchisement, solitary confinement, political prisoners, immigrant […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Broken on All Sides – Film Screening and Panel Discussion (3//9/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 2 weeks agoFilm Screening and Community Discussion
Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Riverside Church
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Prisons and Police in 1914 NYC – Thai Jones, Speaks at Gotham Center (3/6/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As part of the Gotham Center’s Forum series, historian Thai Jones will be discussing his latest book, More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy on March 6, […] -
Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Featured Analysis — The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding Justice, by Rachel Wahl in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Police officers locking the gate of a police station, during a protest condemning
the rape of a 23-year-old woman. Photo cropped. (Tsering Topgyal / AP)The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Hope, Illusion, and Imagination: the Politics of Parole and Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration – Lecture by Dr. Kathy Boudin (4pm on 3/4/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 4 weeks agoMonday, March 4, 2013 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Greenberg Lounge of Vanderbilt Hall
New York University
40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012The Nineteenth Annual Rose Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Racial Gap in Men's Sentencing in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 4 weeks ago“Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.”
Joe Palazzolo, “Racial Gap in Men’s […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post "Prison and the Poverty Trap" in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Check out the latest article in The New York Times’ “Time and Punishment” series.According to recent studies, “while crime may initially decline in places that lock up more people, within a few years the rate […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Prisons in Haiti: US Plans to Build 2 New Prisons in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months ago
Haiti’s criminal justice system attracted international attention following the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010. The destruction wrought by the quake worsened already severe overcrowding , extreme […] -
Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Prison Public Memory Project in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months ago
“The Prison Public Memory Project uses history, dialogue, the arts and technology to build public memory and safe spaces where people from all walks of life can come together to engage in conversation and learning […] -
Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Riot and Protest: Prisons and Crime in Venezuela in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months agoThe January 26th prison riot at Uribana prison in Venezuela was violent, with at least 61 deaths and 120 wounded. In the wake of this and similar riots, and in the context of President Hugo Chavez’ ailing health, […]
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Milk Not Jails in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months ago
Read about an upstate-downstate grassroots alliance seeking to improve communities urban and rural communities… through dairy agriculture.Tanisia Morris, “Greene Hill Food Co-op Sells Prison Reform,” The […]
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Daniel Stageman joined the group
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Michael J. Pfeifer joined the group
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Lynching Beyond Dixie – Michael Pfeifer on the History of Lynching (3/21/13) in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months, 1 week ago4pm on Thursday, March 21
John Jay College, Moot Court (6.68NB) spaceJohn Jay and GC Professor of History Michael Pfeifer and volume contributors William D. Carrigan and Dennis Downey speak about the history […]
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Andy Battle joined the group
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Logan McBride wrote a new blog post Open Positions at The Fortune Society in the group
The Prison Studies Group: 4 months, 1 week agoThe Fortune Society is one of the nation’s preeminent reentry service organizations, providing formerly incarcerated people with the skills and wrap-around services needed to break the cycle of crime and […]
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