National
Conference
on
Prisons
This
Weekend
9/25/98
"Critical Resistance Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex",
a national conference on the rise and destructiveness of the
world's largest prison state, will be held this weekend
(9/25-9/27) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Featured speakers will include Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem
and the 1998 MacArthur "Genius Award" winner Ellen Barry of
the San Francisco-based Legal Services for Prisoners With
Children. For more information call (510) 238-8555. If you
make it to the conference, stop by DRCNet's table to say
hello.
The U.S. jail and prison population (federal, state and
local) stands at nearly 2,000,000 up from just over 200,000
in 1972.
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Issue #60, 9/25/98
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