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"Real Cost of Prisons Comix' book events in the SF Bay Area September 24th through September 29th, 2008

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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.? Through the comics, and associated campaigning, hundreds of thousands of prisoners, their allies, and activists, have had the grisly facts and consequences of mass incarceration and its devastating effects on communities, families and the poor, made accessible. Each comic includes alternatives to the costly and inhumane system we have now...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 10, 2008 (boomark / email).