Mass Story Lab in Skidmore: William Evans describes growing up with parents in prison and struggling to create a different life for himself.
Sponsored by Humanities Action Lab/States of Incarceration
Videographer: Jamel Mosely
Mass Story Lab in New Orleans: Gerald Davis describes his attempt to make the best of a bad situation while incarcerated in Louisiana, and seeing the pain his incarceration caused his family.
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Videographer: Diego Castellanos
Mass Story Lab in New Orleans: Freedom Richardson describes growing up with his father in prison, and discusses the policy reforms he is advocating for to change the system.
Sponsored by Humanities Action Lab/States of Incarceration
Videographer: Diego Castellanos
Mass Story Lab in New Orleans: Demetres Carter-Williams describes the challenges of supporting her son through his prosecution and balancing work with motherhood.
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Videographer: Diego Castellanos
Mass Story Lab in New Orleans: Myles Washington describes how the criminal justice system warehouses people and rips apart families, and his struggle to maintain connections to the outside world while incarcerated.
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Videographer: Diego Castellanos
Mass Story Lab in Greensboro: Tiffany Bullard describes the challenges of reconnecting with her father upon his release from prison.
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Videographer: Paula Damasceno De Oliveira
Mass Story Lab in New Orleans: Sheila Phipps describes fighting the wrongful conviction of her son, Mac, and using art to put a face to other wrongfully convicted people.
Sponsored by Humanities Action Lab/States of Incarceration
Videographer: Diego Castellanos
Mass Story Lab in Milwaukee: Sharyl McFarland describes her experience of generational incarceration.
Sponsored by EX-Prisoners Organizing (EXPO)
Videographers: Tim Coursen
Mass Story Lab in Milwaukee: Charles Hampton describes the conditions at MSDF and the ways this facility continues to impact three generations of his family.
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Videographers: Tim Coursen
In our Mass Story Lab in Columbia, South Carolina, Brenda Lawson shares how being convicted impacted her family.
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In our Mass Story Lab in Columbia, South Carolina, Chris Cherry explains the collateral consequences of his conviction on his community.
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In our Mass Story Lab in Columbia, South Carolina, Hameen Shabaaz tells us how his parents' drug addictions led to divorce, murder, and intergenerational incarceration.
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In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville, Kentrucky, our special guests, Barry Campbell and Kathy Morse--two previously incarcerated storytellers featured in the documentary RIKERS: An American Jail--share how mass incarceration impacts entire communities.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins
In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville, Kentucky, Keturah Herron uses poetry to share how incarceration effected her familial relationships.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins
In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville Kentucky, Tracy Chester expresses the negative impact that her father's absence had on her life.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins
In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville, Kentucky, Arnetta Moore explains how her son's conviction changed her life.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins
In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville, Kentucky, Shameka Parrish Wright expresses the negative impact that her father's incarceration had on her life.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins
In our Mass Story Lab in Louisville, Kentucky, Trinidad Jackson explains how entire families are negatively impacted by the incarceration of one of its members.
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Videographer: Dez Thompkins