Solitary Confinement Closing Reception

Solitary Confinement: Inhumanity in Rhode Island seeks to educate the public about the abuses of solitary confinement in Rhode Island and throughout the country in order to create political pressure to reduce the prevalence of this violent practice. Presented at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the exhibition includes a full scale mock-up of a solitary cell, audio testimony from people presently incarcerated in solitary confinement in Rhode Island, writings and artwork from survivors of solitary, and opportunities for attendees to write letters of support to people presently in solitary and to contribute to efforts to limit the use of solitary confinement in Rhode Island’s prisons.  The exhibition is curated by three MA students at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities – Matthew Branch, Thaddeus Gibson and Cherise Morris – with assistance from the Center’s Assistant Director of Programs, Marisa Brown, and from Rhode Island State Representative J. Aaron Regunberg and the national organizations Black and Pink and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, which generously lent materials to the exhibition.