Brown University is home to a new student group that meets to discuss prison issues and conditions. The meetings are open to the public and events are posted on
Facebook.
Bruce Reilly served nearly 12 years in Rhode Island’s Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) for killing a community college professor in 1992. Now out of jail, he recently sat in a small meeting room in the J. Walter Wilson building on the Brown campus with about a dozen Brown students, talking of his experiences with racial divisions in prison and his current work advocating for better treatment of inmates.
Reilly’s visit was sponsored by the Prison Discussion Group, a new student organization that meets every Sunday night to learn about current issues and conditions in Rhode Island prisons. Coordinated by Becky Mer ’10, the group grew out of concerns among members of a Swearer Center service activity, SPACE, that brings arts into local prisons.
Each meeting features a speaker who has worked with prison inmates, followed by questions and then discussions of often controversial aspects of prison management and life. Topics of the meetings include legal, social, and political background on the Rhode Island criminal justice and prison systems, details on how the ACI operates, federal laws pertaining to prisons, the international criminal justice system, and undocumented immigrants in the criminal justice system.
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