Name: The Box: 27 Years in Solitary — Film screening and panel
Start: 2024-10-07T17:15:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-07T18:45:00-05:00
Location: The University of Texas at Austin School of Law TNH 2.137

$The Box: 27 Years in Solitary \u2014 Film screening and panel$

Film screening and panel discussion of the 2023 short film The Box.
About this Event

The Pr*son and J*il Innovation Lab (PJIL) is hosting a screening of the 2023 short film “The Box: 27 Years in Solitary,” which explores the use of solitary confinement in Pr*son. It focuses on the case of Dennis Hope, a man who spent 27 years in solitary confinement in a Texas Pr*son and who took a lawsuit about his situation to the US Supreme Court.

After the screening will be a panel discussion with Jeremy Young, Senior Producer for Fault Lines, Al Jazeera’s current affairs news program, and the producer of the film; Molly Petchenik, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project which represented Dennis Hope in his Supreme Court challenge; and Chanel Jones from the Lioness Justice Impacted Women's Alliance who has lived experience in solitary in a Texas women's Pr*son. The panel will be moderated by UT LBJ/Law professor and PJIL Director Michele Deitch.