January 30 - February 4 | Ives
Opening Event | Monday, January 30, 1:30 pm | Ives
Join us for the opening event of the 3-week Replica Solitary Confinement Cell Project for New Haven with Mayor Toni N. Harp, Will Ginsberg, President & CEO of the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven; Hope Metcalf, Yale Law School and others. The New Haven Free Public Library together with Yale Law School, Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, Sterling Library, the Joint Project Committee of New Haven UCC congregations, Wilton Friends Meeting, and My Brother's Keeper is organizing this project as part of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), the nationwide interfaith campaign to expose and end the torture of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails and detention centers.
Stay tuned for a full program schedule including Judy Dworin Performance Project, films, community panels and more!
Thank you to our generous sponsors including the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Dwight Hall and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School!
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