Restorers of the Streets: Resources for Learning About the Prison System

Anthony (l) and Emily (r) at St. Lydia's on October 20, 2014.

Anthony Sandusky, friend of St. Lydia’s and a pastor at Concord Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn stopped by last week to preach on Isaiah 58:1-12 and the prison industrial complex in America. Crucial to our understanding of incarceration in our country is our grappling with the fact that racism is at its heart. Here is a short list of resources for further reading–a place to start:

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Black Pain, Terrie Williams
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
The Miseducation of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson
The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
White Like Me, Tim Wise
Dear White America, Tim Wise

Websites
www.realcostofprisons.org

One Response to “Restorers of the Streets: Resources for Learning About the Prison System”

• rachel says:

  October 24, 2014 at 2:14 pm

  Just wanted to share that this year’s Ecumenical Advocacy Days – April 17-20 in D.C. – is on mass incarceration

  http://advocacydays.org/2015-breaking-the-chains/

  Also it is one of the focus topics for the National Council of Churches this year – there were some great speakers and documentaries at the gathering last May – http://www.nationalcouncilofchurches.us/events/CUG2014.php

  Another great resource is the National Religious Campaign Against Torture – and their efforts to address torture in U.S. prisons – http://www.nrcat.org/torture-in-us-prisons

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