RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL is a powerful catalyst to help people think about the human toll of of mass incarceration and the brutal conditions that persist in jails across the country.
Host a Screening
WATCH RIKERS WITH YOUR GROUP
Dozens of universities, faith-based groups, professional and civic organizations are hosting screenings of RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL to bring their students, congregations, members and stakeholders together to watch RIKERS as a group and discuss how to get involved.
Watch audience reactions to this event sponsored by Maryland Public Television at the University of Baltimore.
REQUEST A FREE RIKERS DVD
Contact Colby Kelly, Executive Director, Communications & Engagement: kellyc@publicsquaremedia.org to request a free RIKERS DVD and for help in planning a screening event.
DOWNLOAD A VIEWER GUIDE
Check out the two downloadable Viewer Guides available to support screening events for RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL.
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Additional Resources
JOIN THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DISCUSSING RIKERS: AN AMERICAN JAIL
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- San Francisco Commonwealth Club
- Breaking Down Walls Conference, Philadelphia
- The Vera Institute
- Harvard Divinity School
- NYC Bar Association
- BRIC Arts/Media House, Brooklyn
- #CloseRikers Campaign
- The Fortune Society
- Children’s Defense Fund
- NYU College of Global Public Health
- Amnesty International, Columbia University Chapter
- National Center for State Courts
- University of Arizona
- Brennan Center for Justice
- More Just NYC
- Moral Injury and Collective Healing Advanced Training Seminar at Princeton University
- Chicago Cultural Center
- NYC Women’s Bar Association
- States of Incarceration, Skidmore College
- Revolutionary Reelz Film Series
- New School Center for NYC Affairs
- Actors Gang Prison Project, LA
- Writers Guild of America
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Social Justice Program, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Wesleyan College
- CUNY Queensborough College
- Georgetown University
- Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit
- Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
- University of South Carolina
- North Bronx Racial Justice Coalition
- Fordham University Law School
- Auburn Avenue Research Library – on African American Culture & History, Atlanta
- Time & Space Ltd, Hudson
- Brooklyn College Law School
- Howard University
- Resistance Cinema Program, NYC Church of the Ascension
- St. Peter’s College, Newark
- NYC Chapter, Nat’l Assoc. of Social Workers
- Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
- Lehman College, Bronx