Life Sentence/Teach Our Children/Re-Imagine the Future!

FREE! Families Film Forum presents:

Re-imagine the Future: The Journey from Prison to College: How minds, lives, families and futures have been positively transformed by higher education – and how the College Initiative helped them attain it.

Life Sentence: A personal look at the impact of long-term imprisonment and adjustment back into society. While providing positive opportunities for other formerly incarcerated people, these six successful men and women must deal with the hindrances of lifetime parole. Explores the criminal justice system, hope, ambition, and obstacles they’ve overcome.

Teach Our Children focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps towards their basic rights, examining reactions of prison warden Oswald, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and President Nixon, as well as the death of 31 inmates and prison guards from bullets fired by the National Guard.

Discussion to follow including Sheryl Sohn, Sharon White and Mark Graham
whose stories of long term imprisonment and subsequent success are featured in Life Sentence.

RSVP to prisonfamz@gmail.com, or 718-706-0195, space is limited.

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