Mark your calendar for the next national call-in with Keith LaMar, author of Condemned and Ohio death row prisoner!
When: Monday April 11th at 8 PM (EST)-- the 23rd anniversary of the Lucasville Prison Uprising
Moderator: Dr. Nandi Crosby, sociology professor at Chico State University
Topic: The Economics of Incarceration (costs both inside facilities and to society)
More on the moderator:
Dr. Nandi Crosby is a transformative teacher, both at the university level and also inside prison walls. She devotes her life to stirring up dialogue about racial, poverty, gender and sexuality oppression, and is a committed supporter of Keith's. Dr. Nandi does the important work of taking students inside prisons, and has published several books, including, Whispers Over the Wall: Prisoners and Students Correspond in Search of Answers; This Side of My Struggle: Prisoners on Suffering, Surrendering, and Breaking Free (a book of prisoner writings); and her beautiful memoir, If My Soul Be Lost: a Self-Portrait. (http://www.amazon.com/Dr.-