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Review of The Real Cost of Prisons Comix in Feminist Review

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Thursday, July 9, 2009 The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Edited by Lois Ahrens PM Press As activists know all too well, crafting a political message and effectively mobilizing an audience is an elusive task. In The Real Cost Of Prisons, Lois Ahrens and her contributors beautifully stage a difficult dialogue?about mass incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and the ?war on drugs??with comics. Comics are an accessible, popular form of education, and most importantly, addictive, and hence become a subversive way to raise awareness. The Real Cost of Prisons Project has distributed 115,000 comics to the incarcerated, affected families, and social justice organizations free of charge. Comics are just one part of the organization?s mission to end mass incarceration; since Lois Ahrens founded organization in 2000 a coalition of artists, activists, and researchers has produced and distributed educational materials about the costs?material and affective?of the prison industrial complex and it?s devastating impact on family preservation, women?s reproductive rights, rural economies, and much more...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).