Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration
Description
Seeking Justice: Understanding Incarceration is a non-linear, modular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) consisting of an online learning community, and a collection of educational content and resources intended to help learners better understand the United States carceral system, the people impacted by it, and how it might be evolved in order to bring a more just and peaceful future for all citizens. Learners can choose to participate in a variety of ways, and the content is presented in the form of both videos and a podcast (coming soon!).
The project was developed by Professor Richard Meisler, Lecturer in American Culture, and Professor Ashley Lucas, Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) and Associate Professor in Theater & Drama and the Residential College.
If this is your first time exploring the course, please be sure to start by visiting the Introductory Module for information on how to navigate the content, and participate in the learning community.
The content was designed to be navigated by topic, rather than used in a linear form. Please browse the videos in the modules below in any order you'd like.
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Subject
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Language
English
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Duration
11 weeks
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Status
Available
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U-M Credit Eligible
No
Arts & Culture
Instructors
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No instructor specified
Courses (11)
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Learn moreSeeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration - Introductory Module
This module is intended to help orient learners to the topic of Mass Incarceration, and prepare them to navigate the educational content, and engage with other learners in the learning community. -
Learn moreDoin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
"Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass" is a one-woman play, written and performed by Ashley Lucas, which examines the impacts of incarceration on families. -
Learn moreLaw, Policy, and Advocacy (Seeking Justice; Conversations on Incarceration)
In this module attorneys, activists, and formerly incarcerated individuals discuss topics related to the legal and political dimensions of incarceration. -
Learn moreJuvenile Carceral System (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
This module examines the way that juvenile courts, detention, and treatment programs function and the personal and social cost of the incarceration of children. -
Learn moreWomen & Incarceration (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
This module examines the impacts of incarceration on women, their families, and society. -
Learn moreThe Ties that Bind: Families & Incarceration (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
In this module formerly incarcerated individuals, family members, and activists share stories of the harm that incarceration does to families. -
Learn morePrison Education: Open Minds Inside the Walls (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
This module covers the transformative nature of education, the necessity of providing educational access to those who are incarcerated, and the challenges of doing so. -
Learn moreThe Power of Art in Prisons (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
This module covers the therapeutic power of the arts, and how creative outlets can transform the lives of incarcerated individuals. -
Learn moreMental & Physical Health in Prisons & Beyond (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
This module explores how physical and mental health and treatment, or lack thereof, impact the lives of incarcerated individuals, their families, and society as a whole. -
Learn moreLife After Incarceration: Joys and Challenges (Seeking Justice: Conversations on Incarceration)
In this module formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, and the professionals who help support them discuss the process of reentry, and the opportunities and challenges that people face as they struggle to reintegrate themselves into society. -
Learn moreU-M Carceral State Project Symposium Panel Discussions
The University of Michigan Carceral State Project’s 2018-19 symposium is a year of critical dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and what can be done about it.