On 9/10, Join Piper Kerman and Ginger Thompson as they discuss The War on Drugs: On-Screen and Off

At 2PM in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, author and advocate Piper Kerman (author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison) speaks with ProPublica senior reporter Ginger Thompson, whose work has exposed some of the secret roles Washington has played with the U.S. prison system, and Thompson's years of covering drug cartels worldwide. The two discuss how the drug war, both at home and abroad, fosters the incarceration of low-level offenders and exacerbates gaping racial disparities, and how the media approaches these issues.

Part of the ongoing Sackler Center series "States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children and People of Color."

Free with Museum admission

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