The Long Term Anthology

From Haymarket Books: The Long Term Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom Edited by Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Jill Petty, Audrey Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross Powerful, provocative narratives of people surviving the devastating affects of life in long term incarceration. Long Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state’s term for those it…

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The Long Term Animation

The following work is from The Long Term, a project by IL-CHEP member organization Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project: “The Long Term is a hand-drawn animation developed by artists serving long term sentences. The video uses personal narrative and research to describe the scale and impact of long term sentencing policies. The work tells the…

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