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MCC Daily Tribune

In Punishment We Trust: Mass Incarceration in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project presents:

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Monday, November 16, 2020

7:00pm

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sMO7c7LIR4yTKlQ22QtryA

Well known are the bleak statistics of incarceration that make America the world's leading jailer. Racial disparities frame much of the debate about the disproportionate impact of police and prisons on black and brown lives and increasingly poor, rural whites. How does history inform our present moment and help guide us to a greater cultural understanding of how we think about crime and punishment? Are we unwittingly repeating mistakes from the past? How are we supposed to balance individual accountability with social responsibility? By taking the long view, this talk reveals how so much of what defines the crisis of mass incarceration today are rooted in a set of old ideas. And that the solution to today's problems also grow out of examples from our history.

Attached Files:
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad poster.pdf

Jodi Oriel
Office of Student Life & Leadership Dev.
11/13/2020