Humanities Action Lab (HAL) is a national hub at The New School where the humanities and design generate innovative curricula and public engagement with urgent social issues. The HAL coalition includes 20 university partners and organizations from across the country. The first HAL project States of Incarceration focuses on the past, present, and future of incarceration, exploring the explosion of prisons and incarcerated people in the US — including immigration detention centers — and its global dimensions.

States of Incarceration

Current Location: Brown University
Past Locations: The New School, University of California, Riverside
When is it coming to your state? Exhibition Schedule

States of Incarceration brings together the national community of over 500 people in 20 cities who together created a traveling exhibition on the past, present, and future of mass incarceration.

The National Launch event featured a performance by Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and a conversation between Glenn Martin, of JustLeadershipUSA, and Venida Browder, mother of Kalief Browder.

CLICK HERE to watch panel discussions from the States of Incarceration Launch & Conference.