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San Francisco/Bay Area Real Cost of Prisons Comix Book Launch Events

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Wednesday September 24th - Lois Ahrens, editor of the ?Real Cost Of Prisons Comix? at The Green Arcade 7pm. Book launch for the ?Real Cost Of Prisons Comix?, edited by Lois Ahrens and published by PM Press. ?One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher.? Join the editor speaking about the book, and the wider project, together with the following activists who will talk on how they?ve used the comic books, and their work: Marlon Altan is a social studies teacher with 5 Keys Charter School. 5 Keys charter school is a high school that works out of the San Francisco County Jail. Amie Dowling is an Assistant Professor in the Performing Arts Dept at the University of San Francisco and through Community Works leads theater/writing workshops in the San Francisco jails...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).