BOOK TALK
The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
Tuesday, April 15
6:30–8:30 PM ET
Reception to follow included with RSVP
Columbia Business School, Geffen Hall
Cooperman Commons
645 West 130th Street, New York, NY 10027
You're invited to celebrate the release of The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits, the highly anticipated book by Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. Based on years of research by Worth Rises, The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, profit off of incarceration.
Join Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and staff writer at The New Yorker, for a conversation with Worth Rises executive director, Bianca Tylek, and US prisons program director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Johnny Perez. Their conversation will offer a deep dive into the complex dynamics of the prison industry, the false ethics of carceral capitalism, and their far-reaching consequences on communities. Damon Phillips, adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia Business School and professor of management at Wharton, will provide welcome remarks.
Attendees will receive a free copy of The Prison Industry, and all guests are invited to a reception following the panel.
