The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration

The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration
with Aminah Elster, James Kilgore and Vic Liu in conversation.

James Kilgore, National Book Foundation Award-winning author of A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration, and Vic Liu will engage in a conversation about The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration. Participating in the discussion will be Aminah Elster, a legal advocate and researcher dedicated to transforming the criminal legal system. She champions prison abolition and co-founded UAHERS, empowering incarcerated individuals in California through education and advocacy.
This event is a partnership with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP).

A first-of-its-kind primer that vividly portrays the visceral reality of incarceration, The Warehouse combines James Kilgore's research-driven opposition with Vic Liu's artistic interpretation, using mediums available to prisoners. Join Kilgore, Liu and Aminah Elster from the California Coalition for Women Prisoners for a reading and discussion on empathy and accessibility. How can we truthfully convey the dehumanizing effects of incarceration without further dehumanizing those involved ?

CCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization—with members inside and outside prison—that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender justice as central to dismantling the PIC and we prioritize the leadership of the people, families, and communities most impacted in building this movement.