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Blog Reveiw on Hunger, Homeless Poverty Task for of the American Library Assoc.: Comics for community organizing, outreach and education

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association http://www.hhptf.org/ Comics for community organizing, outreach and education Monday December 15, 2008 Graphic novels are a suitable medium for illustrating cold, hard facts. They can literally put a face on morbid, impersonal economic reality. Lois Ahrens understands this and perfects the medium well in the graphic novel, The Real Cost of Prisons Comix. This collective work, part of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, which initially began with the work of economists, reveals the human cost of the prison industry, where 2.3 million people a day are locked up in our nation?s prisons. The work is in three parts, ?Prison Town,? ?Prisoners of the War on Drugs,? and ?Prisoners of a Hard Life...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).