On the Hard Path to Prison Reform: An Interview with Heather Ann Thompson, November 2017
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history and Afroamerican and African studies at University of Michigan.
Published in 2016, University of Michigan historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer-prize-winning history of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, Blood In the Water, was released in paperback this fall. Thompson was in Milwaukee recently to speak at a series of events spotlighting mass incarceration. She spoke with The Progressive contributor Erik Gunn about the lessons of Attica and the prospects for decarceration in the era of President Donald Trump…
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