(Source: AFT - American Federation of Teachers) Using everything from prison tours to art, college faculty across the country are joining a national conversation on incarceration. At the University of New Orleans, where faculty are represented by the AFT's United Federation of College Teachers, a series of lectures, panel discussions, films, visual art and student coursework is examining the American prison system at a moment of heightened awareness around racial equity and prison culture. Not only does the United States host the largest prison population in the world, but research shows that African-American men are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men, a statistic that...
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