The Real Cost of Prisons Comix: Book and Reading

[susanstinson]

The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Lois Ahrens and Ellen Miller-Mack



Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 pm
Broadside Bookshop | 247 Main Street | Northampton | MA |
From the Real Cost of Prisons Project

This newly-published volume contains all three of the comic books produced by the Real Cost of Prisons Project: "Prison Town: Paying the Price"; "Prisoners of the War on Drugs"; and "Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children". Graphically and emotionally compelling, full of moving stories and straightforward information, this book is an education in the politics and human cost of mass incarceration

Lois Ahrens is the editor of this volume, and the founder and director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project.

Ellen Miller-Mack wrote the stories for two of the comics in the volume. She is a nurse practitioner who has worked with women in local jails.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together activists, legal professionals, artists and others, to create educational resources that expose the effects of incarceration on individuals, community and nation.

" I cannot think of a better way to arouse the public to the cruelties of the prison system than to make this book widely available." ----Howard Zinn

Comments

[firecat]

Thanks for passing this on.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Happy that you're interested.

[maryjholliday.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. We have the war on drugs one at the shelter. I was blown away by the straightforward way it presented such radical material.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

The straightforward way it presented such radical material = Lois Ahrens in a nutshell.

Very cool that you've got one of the comic books at the shelter.

[maryjholliday.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I was very surprised to find it there! I wish there was more emphasis on rooting out the real issues, rather than masking the symptoms of them (in the shelter system, I mean).