Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Mass Incarceration oral history collection, 2018-2019Biographical NoteThe Mass Incarceration oral history collection consists of eight interviews conducted by writer, journalist, and photographer Kurt Boone. Boone analyzes the mass incarceration system in the United States through the lens of his own family. He interviews 8 members of his family who have been incarcerated, work in law enforcement or corrections, or have close family members who have been incarcerated. Boone's family experience provides a backdrop for a broad look at how mass incarceration in the United States reverberates through families and communities
Scope and ContentsThe Mass Incarceration oral history collection holds eight interviews by Kurt Boone. He interviews 8 members of his family who have been incarcerated, work in law enforcement or corrections, or have close family members who have been incarcerated. Narrators discuss their relationship with mass incarceration, whether that is through their own incarceration, their work as a police officer or corrections officer, or through a family member's incarceration. Narrators who have been formerly incarcerated discuss the events that led up to their incarceration, including homelessness, domestic violence, and poverty. Narrators who are currently or have previously worked in law enforcement of corrections reflect on the impacts of crime, policing, and incarceration in Black communities
The collection's narrators are: Wayne Bolt, Elliott Boone, Kanita Boone, Iris Bowen, Darnley Braithwaite, Robert Crocker, Lawrence Sealey, and Akilah Shedrick
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