Adapted from the spring 2017 UNCG Research Magazine As the nation’s largest jail, Chicago’s Cook County facility spans eight city blocks and houses 9,000 inmates. It also has another distinction: by default, it’s the largest mental-health facility in the United States. To Dr. Anne Parsons, this is not surprising. Her research… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCGNow UNCG will host States of Incarceration, the first national traveling multimedia exhibition and coordinated public dialogue on mass incarceration, from Nov. 8 through Dec. 15 at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in downtown Greensboro. The exhibition is organized and produced by The New School’s Humanities… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly UNCG Assistant Professor of History Anne Parsons has received a 2015 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. The fellowship will allow her to write a book about how the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals has coincided with the rise of mass incarceration, replacing one form… Continue reading…
