On Thursday, September 28,
Inquest and the
Institute to End Mass Incarceration are excited to partner with
The Visiting Room Project for a day of in-person activities at Harvard University about life-without-parole sentences and the struggle to end mass incarceration. A
full list of activities can be found on the event page, with
links to register. Registration is free, but space will be limited.
The Visiting Room Project is the largest collection of video interviews with men serving life-without-parole sentences in the world. All of these interviews were filmed in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. Following the election of a progressive DA in New Orleans, who created a Civil Rights Division, and a governor who has commuted more than 150 life-without-parole sentences, some of the men who were interviewed for the project have been able to return home. They will be joining us at Harvard alongside The Visiting Room Project team members.
Events will include a breakfast about prison education programs, a lunch on post-conviction relief, a light dinner about how to get involved with decarceral struggle, and an evening film screening.
The symposium is hosted by Inquest and the Institute to End Mass Incarceration and made possible by generous support from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, the Hutchins Center’s Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety, the Phillips Brooks House Association, the HLS Film Society, the National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, and the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.
