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Dialogues on Incarceration in Our Communities
With NEH funding, *States of Incarceration* fosters community dialogues on the topic of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in the United States from a broad range of perspectives. Image courtesy of the Humanities Action Lab.

With NEH funding, States of Incarceration fosters community dialogues on the topic of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in the United States from a broad range of perspectives. Image courtesy of the Humanities Action Lab.

A project of the Humanities Action Lab, States of Incarceration fosters community dialogues on the topic of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in the United States from a broad range of perspectives. The NEH-funded program is the result of collaboration between more than 500 people associated with 20 universities and colleges from across the nation. At each higher education institution, faculty offer a course that, in partnership with a local organization, tasks students with investigating the history and present of criminal justice in their communities. The students then used what they learned to design and curate a section of a traveling exhibition, as well as to contribute to an online platform that hosts essays, works of art, and oral histories. Cumulatively, these local stories offer a new way of looking at a national issue.

“When you pose a really good humanities question and allow people to answer it from the vantage point of their own community, you get an incredible opportunity for collective learning about a shared national concern.”
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