Documenting Carceral Injustice
The Documenting Carceral Injustice Program
at the Medill School of Journalism, part of Medill Documentary, was created by Brent E. Huffman, Director of Documentary Journalism at Northwestern and Professor of Journalism at Medill.
This program teams Northwestern University undergraduate students in Evanston with incarcerated students at Stateville Correctional Center and Sheridan Correctional Center to create short documentaries that tells an incarcerated student’s story in their own words.
Evanston students
will travel to Stateville/Sheridan Correctional one day a week to learn documentary production with Stateville students at the Northwestern Prison Education Program classroom. The Epistemic Reparations Project funds equipment and transportation to the center. Over the course of one quarter, the teams of students will collaborate on the creation of five short documentaries.
This class is part of the Epistemic Reparations Project created by Professor Jennifer Lackey and is funded by the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs. This program is also part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program also directed by Professor Lackey.
Documentaries created in this program will premiere at the Academy Award qualifying American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs as well as play on other online and broadcast outlets.
In association with the Northwestern Prison Education Program.
Read WTTW's story about the program (click image):
Watch the trailer for "Love, Karim" from the spring Documenting Carceral Injustice class: