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.

Join us this month for a discussion on the realities of motherhood and pregnancy while incarcerated.

– Digitized issue of Tenacious Zine #5 Mothers Day issue: https://azinelibrary.org/trash/tenacious.pdf
– Excerpt from Tenacious Issue 27: https://issuu.com/poczineproject/docs/tenacious_excerpt_27_2012
– Tutwiler: A Marshall Project/Frontline documentary (30 minutes, video): https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/06/the-separation
– The Realities of Pregnancy and Mothering While Incarcerated (PDF article – recommended): http://jaapl.org/content/early/2020/05/13/JAAPL.003924-20

Optional:

– Pregnant Behind Bars: What We Do and Don’t Know About Pregnancy and Incarceration, NPR Radio Interview (4 minutes, audio): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/21/705587775/pregnant-behind-bars-what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-pregnancy-and-incarceration
– Mothers leaving prison try reconnecting with family (7 minutes, video): https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-for-justice-1611791934/

Register @ METRO