With one in 100 American adults behind bars, more and more juries across the country are handing down sentences of life without parole. Now is the time to question what it means for society to turn from state-sanctioned executions to punishments that impose what many prisoners describe as "in-house death sentences."
Join the New York chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and artist, writer, and activist *Anthony Papa in a public meeting to discuss prisons, harsh sentencing and why life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment.
* Anthony Papa is communications specialist for the Drug Policy Alliance. He is an artist, writer, noted advocate against the war on drugs and co-founder of the Mothers of the New York Disappeared. Mr. Papa's stinging editorials about the drug war have appeared in news sources across the country. He is a frequent public speaker and college lecturer on his art and criminal justice issues. Mr. Papa is the author of 15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom (2004), a memoir about his experience of being sentenced to state prison for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense under New York's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws.
For more information, see Campaign to End the Death Penalty at www.nodeathpenalty.org.
Date:
Mon, 06/16/2008 - 7:00pm
Location:
126th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam
New York, NY United States
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