Break the Cycle: The Power of Food to Interrupt the Revolving Prison Door

Break the Cycle: The Power of Food to Interrupt the Revolving Door of Prisons

Monday, April 24, 2017

5:00 PM

With networking to follow the discussion

1106 Mechanical Engineering Building

1513 University Ave. (map)

press release: A documentary film screening and community discussion examining the interconnections between race, mass incarceration and urban agriculture. Building Food Justice Capacity in South Madison is a four-year community-university partnership that uses food as a strategy to break cycles of systematic incarceration of minorities by our criminal justice system. The partnership asks the question: How could improving healthy food access in South Madison simultaneously facilitate effective reentry for formerly incarcerated people?

Panelists:

Anthony Cooper, Sr., Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership and Development

Carmella Glenn, Just Bakery, Madison Urban Ministry

Alfonso Morales, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Robert Pierce, Neighborhood Food Solutions

Facilitator:

Dadit Hidayat, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Funding provided by

Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment

Co-sponsored By:

Kaufman Lab, Urban and Regional Planning

Neighborhood Food Solutions

Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development