Join us for a conversation with three leaders of the movement to end solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
Featuring
Jean Casella, Director, Solitary Watch & Co-Organizer, Photo Requests from Solitary. Casella will briefly introduce the history and practice of solitary, which affects at least 80,000 individuals incarcerated in the United States today, as well as the genesis of the photo project. Johnny Perez, Director of the U.S. Prisons Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and a survivor of solitary confinement. Perez will discuss his own experiences in solitary, along with the role solitary plays in enabling mass incarceration, and the urgent need to end it. Udi Ofer, Lecturer, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs & Director, Justice Division, ACLU National Political and Advocacy Department. Ofer will speak about his work on the New Jersey campaign that resulted in legislation limiting the use of solitary confinement as wel