Alison Flowers & Reginald Dwayne Betts: “Doing Time, Lost Time”

The United States locks up more people, per capita, than any other country in the world, but the experience of doing time—and making up for lost time upon release from prison—is widely misunderstood. In her book Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence and Identity, investigative journalist Alison Flowers follows four wrongly convicted men and women as they are released back into the world. She is joined by poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose memoir A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning and Coming of Age in Prison chronicled his eight-year stint as an adult offender after committing a carjacking at age sixteen.

Presented in partnership with Chicago Humanities Festival. Tickets to the 2016 Chicago Humanities Festival go on sale to CHF members on Tuesday, September 20, and to the general public on Tuesday, September 27. The full schedule of all programs is available at chicagohumanities.org/speed

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