Events at Reed

March 16, 2015

Public Policy Lecture Series: Andrew Jefferson, “Entangled Encounters With Prisons”

Monday, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall

Prisons are complex relational spaces filled with anguish, uncertainty, and collateral damage. Around the world human rights organizations engage with prisons to ameliorate suffering, promote global standards, and curb violent excesses. Typically these interventions are based on an assumption of independence. This presentation takes issue with that claim, and calls for the human rights community to be more honest with itself. Andrew M. Jefferson is a prisons researcher at DIGNITY (Danish Institute Against Torture), specializing in the ethnographic study of prisons and prison reform processes in the global south. Sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund. More about the series Hope in Times of Crisis: Prisons, Policing, and Human Rights.
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