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Appalachian Prison Book Project event In-Person / Online
Renaldo Hudson will speak on "Ending Perpetual Punishment"
Mr. Hudson is the Education Director at the Illinois Prison Project and a community organizer who focuses on ending perpetual punishment. He spent over 37 yers in prison, including more than a dozen on death row. While incarcerated, he developed a groundbreaking prison newspaper and a transformational peer education program. He's also an artist who works win acrylic and oil. In September 2020, Governor JB Priszker (Illinois) commuted his life sentence and he was released. Hiis educational work has been featured in the BBC, Chicago Tribune, NBC News, Chicago Magazine, the Sentencing Project, and the Global Leadership Summit.
This program is sponsored by the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative and the Appalachian Prison Book Project.
This is a hybrid event--Zoom link is: https://wvu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlc-2srTwiH9AxGzsRh99y_aVuwmrFV_rm
- Date:
- Wednesday, October 19, 2022
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Milano Reading Room
- Library:
- Downtown Campus Library
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://wvu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlc-2srTwiH9AxGzsRh99y_aVuwmrFV_rm
- Audience:
- Public