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December 24, 2005
Comic Books from the Real Cost of Prisons Project
Comic Books from the Real Cost of Prisons Project
These comic books are being created loosely based on each of the Real Cost of Prisons workshops. The stories and statistical information in each comic book are thoroughly researched and the research is cited.
Comic books will be sent free of charge to organizations who submit a one page email or letter explaining how you will use the comic books in your organizing, community education and outreach work.
Your letter should include contact name, mailing address, phone number,email address and brief description of your organization or program. Please specify how many comic books you can use. Organizations/groups can receive up to 300 copies of each comic book depending on your needs. Due to demand, we cannot guarantee you will receive the number you request but we will try to meet your request.
Each comic book is 16 pages with a four color cover and black and white interior pages.
Send your letter to: Real Cost of Prisons Project, 5 Warfield Place,
Northampton, MA 01060
Or email: info@realcostofprisons.org .
For those interested in copies of the Real Cost of Prisons comics for their personal use, they can be purchased through AK Press at akpress.org
Prison Town: Paying the Price by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore. The comic book tells the story the ways in which the financing and siting of prisons and jails effects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of the how mass incarceration effects the people of urban communities where the majority of people who are incarcerated come from. Included in the comic book are alternatives to the current system.
As an extension of our comic book series, we have developed a number of the one page handouts that feature pages from the comics. Please feel free to print them out and use them in your work.
From Prison Town: Paying the Price by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore
How Prisons Are Paid For (and who really pays)
"Map" of the U.S. on prison building and siting
The Cost of a Cage
Prisoners of the War on Drugs by Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens. The comic book includes: the history of the war on drugs, mandatory minimums and how racism creates harsher sentences for people of color; stories on how the war on drugs works against women, three strikes, obstacles to coming home after incarceration; how mass incarceration destabilizes neighborhoods. Alternatives to the present system.
From Prisoners of the War on Drugs by Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens
Consider These Alternatives
Meet the Builders of the Drug Prison Boom
Cycles of Exile
Free at Last (available in spanish Libra Al Fin)
Three Strikes and You Are Out
Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children by Susan Willmarth, Ellen Miller-Mack, and Lois Ahrens. The comic book includes stories about: women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the War on Drugs, the "costs" of
incarceration for women and their families. A two page story details the trial and sentencing of Regina McKnight. Also included are "Change is Possible" alternatives to the present system, a glossary and footnotes. 20 pages with a four color cover.
From Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children by Susan Willmarth, Ellen Miller-Mack, and Lois Ahrens .
1 Out of Every 109 Women In America
The Story of Regina McKnight (poster size)
The Story of Regina McKnight (consecutive pages)
Change is Possible
Glossary
Posted by lois at December 24, 2005 07:35 PM