Hosted by the 5C Prison Abolition Collective, former Black Panther Jalil Muntaqim gave a lecture outlining a “new history” of the United States. Muntaqim, who was incarcerated for 49 years, spoke about abolitionist organizing and the history of the prison-industrial complex.
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Mapping mass incarceration: Scripps alum Mariah Tso discusses community-driven cartography
This Monday, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective (5C PrisAb) held a talk titled “Mapping Mass Incarceration” at Scripps College’s Motley Coffeehouse. Guest speaker Mariah Tso SC ’14, a Diné cartographer and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist who currently works at Million Dollar Hoods (MDH), spoke about critical cartography and MDH’s
Prison reform activist and author Kelly Lytle Hernández speaks on incarceration in LA
On Tuesday, April 18, Pomona College’s Ena H. Thompson Lectureship hosted Kelly Lytle Hernández for a lecture titled “Million Dollar Hoods: The Costs of Incarceration in Los Angeles.” Lytle Hernández is a professor of history, African American studies and urban planning at UCLA. The MacArthur Fellow has written multiple award-winning