You would think chaos would ensue if prisoners were put in charge of a prison. You’d be wrong. Jamie Bissonette will share the true story of what happened in the 1970s at Walpole Correctional Institute when prisoners were able to bargain with the prison administration and even create a union—with great results.

CREDENTIALS: Jamie Bissonette is the co-director of an American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program and the author of WHEN THE PRISONERS RAN WALPOLE: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition.

AVAILABILITY: Massachusetts, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Alexander Dwinell, (617) 547-4002 (MA), alexander@southendpress.org