Ella Morrison L&S Arts & Humanities
½ Million: Reimagining the Cost of Juvenile Incarceration
This project explores the intersection of prison abolition and narrative justice. Through a combination of community engagement, narrative-motivated research, and film production, this project will delve into abolitionist media, examine cinematic alternatives to the ways the prison-industrial complex manifests in mainstream media, and explore how systems-impacted communities are reimagining safety, justice, and accountability without reliance on incarceration. By collaborating with youth directly impacted by the juvenile justice system in the Bay Area, this project hopes to be a space of collective dreaming where youth are empowered to challenge the systems that confine them and envision a present and future for themselves that is beyond the walls that hold them.
This project asks, how do youth who have been incarcerated or on probation in the Bay Area reimagine where the funds that have been spent on their incarceration and/or probation could go? What alternative pathways for this capital do they dream for themselves?
Message To Sponsor
Thank you so much for your support this summer, as I began my research journey through SURF. It was so powerful to spend time with the perspectives of those impacted by the juvenile legal system. I gained much knowledge and many skills that have already been invaluable as I begin working on my senior thesis and applying to graduate school.