About This Event
Corrections: How we change the story of criminal justice in America
Ben Austen, author of Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change, joins us to talk about not just the problems of America's criminal justice system but why and how we change it.
Cocktail hour with medium/heavy apps and cash bar.
Speaker at 6:15 p.m.
Austen is a journalist from Chicago. His book High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the best books of 2018 by Booklist, Mother Jones and the public libraries of Chicago and St. Louis. A former editor at Harper's Magazine, Ben teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. His feature writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired and many other publications. He is currently completing two eight-part nonfiction Audible Originals podcasts, and he is the co-host, with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are….
The Washington Post named Correction one of the best nonfiction books of 2023. The New Yorker says, "Austen transforms a debate often conducted on the plane of stereotype and fear-mongering into a close study of real people in a broken system." Matthew Desmond says, "Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside prison that I have ever read." Jelani Cobb calls it "a marvel of meticulous reporting." John Grisham says, "This book should be required reading for every lawyer and law student."
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About This Event
Corrections: How we change the story of criminal justice in America
Ben Austen, author of Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change, joins us to talk about not just the problems of America's criminal justice system but why and how we change it.
Cocktail hour with medium/heavy apps and cash bar.
Speaker at 6:15 p.m.
Austen is a journalist from Chicago. His book High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the best books of 2018 by Booklist, Mother Jones and the public libraries of Chicago and St. Louis. A former editor at Harper's Magazine, Ben teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. His feature writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired and many other publications. He is currently completing two eight-part nonfiction Audible Originals podcasts, and he is the co-host, with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are….
The Washington Post named Correction one of the best nonfiction books of 2023. The New Yorker says, "Austen transforms a debate often conducted on the plane of stereotype and fear-mongering into a close study of real people in a broken system." Matthew Desmond says, "Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside prison that I have ever read." Jelani Cobb calls it "a marvel of meticulous reporting." John Grisham says, "This book should be required reading for every lawyer and law student."
Thank you to our sponsors
Platinum
The Colby Abbot Building & the Historic Railway Exchange Building
Gold
Jackie Boynton
Jim Gramling
Silver
Bronze
Mary Scholle