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Faceless No More
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OLLI at Duke Online Course, Spring 2021 - Course #3276
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Six-session online course, open to OLLI at Duke members: Wednesdays, May 19-June 16, 2021
Registration for this course opens Wednesday, May 5, 9:00 a.m.
To learn more about the OLLI at Duke program, go to https://learnmore.duke.edu/olli
To learn more about the OLLI at Duke program, go to https://learnmore.duke.edu/olli
The United States has more men and women incarcerated per capita than any nation in the world. Looking at just what happens in North Carolina provides a foundation for understanding the prison experience, but it is not nearly enough to see the ills of the prison system writ large. In this six-session course, Mark Hall and Bill Grizack will facilitate a speaker series designed to illuminate the prison experience from local to global. Each guest speaker has experience in a different area of the world of the criminal/social justice system. In total, this course is intended to be a global prison experience immersion, where we will tackle difficult topics in the hope that with knowledge can come action. After each guest speaker intensive, students will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer their point of view on what was discussed. This class is open to Olli at Duke members.
Session Schedule
May 19: Global Incarceration Perspectives with Justice Defenders. In this session you will hear stories from a former resident of Uganda's death row that obtained his law degree from the University of London and how he used that knowledge to earn his freedom.
May 26: Unheard Voices with Children Seen + Heard. Children are the most often overlooked cohort of people that feel the effects of an incarcerated family member. You will learn directly from kids around the world what it means to have a parent in prison.
June 2: Incarceration Nation with Baz Dreisinger. Dr. Dreisinger works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. At John Jay she is the Founding Academic Director of John Jay's Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men at Otisville Correctional Facility, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. She regularly speaks about justice reform and prison issues on popular news media and in international settings.
June 9: Voices from the Inside with guests from the UK and the US. In this atypical session we will host a twitter live stream with residents inside prisons and their loved ones, sharing intimate stories on the good, the bad, and the ugly of dealing with family life from behind the wall.
June 16: The Theory Behind the Practice with Chesa Boudin, Dr. Sean Wilson, and Jackie Fielding. Mr. Boudin is the DA in San Francisco, Dr. Wilson a PhD Criminologist from William Patterson University, and Jackie Fielding is a J.D. and Fellow from NYU's Brennan Center for Justice. Together, they will share how the prison experience is designed from the laws to the conditions of confinement.
June 16: Global Challenges for Prison Reform with Silja Talvi. Ms. Talvi has exposed the ills of private prisons around the globe and advocated for their abolition. She's very good at her job. So good that the prison industrial complex has her living in exile in Finland. In this riveting session we will hear her stories and learn from an advocacy expert on what we can all do to help.
May 26: Unheard Voices with Children Seen + Heard. Children are the most often overlooked cohort of people that feel the effects of an incarcerated family member. You will learn directly from kids around the world what it means to have a parent in prison.
June 2: Incarceration Nation with Baz Dreisinger. Dr. Dreisinger works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. At John Jay she is the Founding Academic Director of John Jay's Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men at Otisville Correctional Facility, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. She regularly speaks about justice reform and prison issues on popular news media and in international settings.
June 9: Voices from the Inside with guests from the UK and the US. In this atypical session we will host a twitter live stream with residents inside prisons and their loved ones, sharing intimate stories on the good, the bad, and the ugly of dealing with family life from behind the wall.
June 16: The Theory Behind the Practice with Chesa Boudin, Dr. Sean Wilson, and Jackie Fielding. Mr. Boudin is the DA in San Francisco, Dr. Wilson a PhD Criminologist from William Patterson University, and Jackie Fielding is a J.D. and Fellow from NYU's Brennan Center for Justice. Together, they will share how the prison experience is designed from the laws to the conditions of confinement.
June 16: Global Challenges for Prison Reform with Silja Talvi. Ms. Talvi has exposed the ills of private prisons around the globe and advocated for their abolition. She's very good at her job. So good that the prison industrial complex has her living in exile in Finland. In this riveting session we will hear her stories and learn from an advocacy expert on what we can all do to help.
