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First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition Examines Life Behind Bars


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    CORAL GABLES, Fla. (February 17. 2017) – The graphic photos alone were powerful enough. The detailed stories made people feel as if they were there.

    “States of Incarceration,” the first national traveling multimedia exhibition and coordinated public dialogue that explores the history and future of mass incarceration in the United States, had its grand opening at the Wesley Gallery on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus on February 4, combining images showing the evolution of crime and punishment with a Mass Story Lab featuring former inmates telling their painful accounts of life behind bars.

    During the event, hosted by UM’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE), Kathie Klarreich, director of Exchange for Change, a nonprofit that facilitates writing workshops in South Florida correctional institutions, and Marleine Bastien, director of Haitian Women of Miami, which works to empower Haitian women refugees, framed South Florida’s local history of immigrant detention in the wider context of nationwide mass incarceration.

    Audience members participated in several actions, including writing letters to detainees, creating artwork, and volunteering with advocacy groups like Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees, which is working to end the sense of isolation experienced by those detained at Krome Processing Center.

    In addition to the CCE, the exhibition was co-sponsored by the Wesley Foundation, Student Affairs, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

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