The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation — numbers now swelled by waves of immigrant detentions.
Immigrants and incarcerated individuals often are held in the same facilities, managed by the same corporations, and policed by the same personnel, according to Amnesty International — and both sets of detainees are overwhelmingly black and brown. Yet there is little understanding of the connection between the issues.
On February 2 – 3, the Humanities Action Lab at Hunter College will host a two-day convening, “States of Incarceration: Connecting Stories Across Borders and Bars.”
Hunter Meetings To Examine Nexus of Mass Incarceration, Immigrant Detention