Event Description
Baz Dreisinger will present her new book Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Join us for a reading, followed by Q & A and book signing at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery.
A teacher in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, Baz Dreisinger is the founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program. The program offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men throughout New York State, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Her book "Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World" (February, 2016) is a first-person odyssey through prisons in nine countries, beginning in Africa and concluding in Europe. It offers a poignant window into a world most can never see, and offers a radical rethinking of one of America's most devastating exports and national experiments: the modern prison system.
This event is co-presented by the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery and Drexel's PEN Society.
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