{"id":365,"date":"2017-06-02T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T18:24:50","slug":"ub-and-mpt-host-screening-of-compelling-new-film-about-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"UB and MPT Host Screening of Compelling New Film About Mass Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, the\u00a0School of Criminal Justice and Maryland Public Television hosted a special screening of <em>Rikers: An American Jail<\/em>, a compelling new documentary film from Bill Moyers that brings you face to face with what it&#8217;s like to be incarcerated in the United States. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by MPT anchor and news correspondent, Karen Gibbs. College of Public Affairs Dean <strong>Roger Hartley<\/strong> and School of Criminal Justice Executive Director <strong>Debra Stanley<\/strong> both served as panelists, along with Johnny Perez, Safe Re-entry Advocate at New York City&#8217;s Urban Justice Center, and Tarolyn Thrasher, Re-entry Program Case Manager for the\u00a0Druid Heights Community Development Corporation in Baltimore. Check out this recap and commentary from the screening event&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TkKokUsyRXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film aired on MPT&#8217;s second channel, MPT2, on May 30 at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the film:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rikersfilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rikersfilm.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, the\u00a0School of Criminal Justice and Maryland Public Television hosted a special screening of Rikers: An American Jail, a compelling new documentary film from Bill Moyers that brings you face to face with what it&#8217;s like to be incarcerated in the United States. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}