History: archeology
Thu 10 Jun 2010
2010
June 2010
Thursday 10 June 2010
Thu 10 Jun, 7:30 pm. 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, 90049. 310-440-4500. free. Skirball Cultural Center - [email][events]
Admission: FREE; advance tickets highly recommended Wilbert Rideau was convicted of murder and sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. The sentence was later amended to life imprisonment. He spent forty-four years in one of the country's most infamous prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. From within Angola, long the site of prison reform activism because of its hostile conditions, Rideau worked to transform the criminal justice system.
Though the brutality of earlier decades is largely gone, prisoners at Angola and around the country still suffer mistreatment, overcrowded conditions, and violent conflicts with other inmates. Be there when Rideau, paroled in 2005 and author of In the Place of Justice, visits Zócalo to reflect on his time in prison, his life's work since his release, and what remains to be done for the country's prisons.
Advance reservations: www.zocalopublicsquare.org or (213) 403-0416. Not available on site at the Skirball or via Skirball ticketing online or by phone.