Want to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.

While the group’s facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.

This month we’ll be discussing selected Searching for Justice spotlights from PBS News. Each video is 5-9 minutes long and tackles the issues of life after incarceration:

– Part 1: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-justice-1vqvd3/
– Part 2: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-justice-headline-here-2ywlqn/
– Part 3: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-justice-part-3-5vgswg/
– Part 4: https://www.pbs.org/video/how-drug-testing-alabama-holds-former-prisoners-back-xal8r0/
– Part 5: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-justice-part-5-ydi3xd/

Optional:

– For girls with mothers in prison, summer camp offers support: https://www.pbs.org/video/mothers-behind-bars-1626900904/
– Business owners with records are haunted by the past: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-for-justice-1596740745/
– How arrest records become invisible handcuffs: https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-for-justice-1637187507/