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Abolitionist Futures: A PLSN Discussion Group, September / Juvenile Justice: Intersections of Gender and Race

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Monday, September 12th from 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Want to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.

While the group's facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.

This month's discussion will examine the ways gender and race play a role in the juvenile justice system:

  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls (Available in all formats at QPL, BPL, NYPL)
  • Juvenile justice system confines Black youth at over 4 times the rate of white youth (PPI Data Graphic)
  • Nearly 10% of confined girls are held for status offenses such as “running away, truancy, and incorrigibility” (PPI Data Graphic)

Optional:

  • Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019 (Prison Policy Initiative Report)

Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.

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