OA1216 - We welcome incarcerated journalist and advocate Christopher Blackwell, calling from his home at the Washington Corrections Center. Chris is the co-founder and Executive Director of Look2Justice, a non-profit which empowers and advocates currently and formerly incarcerated people through an “inside-out” organizing model. He is also a writer whose work has appeared in (among other places) The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Nation, and is a co-author of the new book Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement. Chris joins to share his story and his own deeply personal perspective on the inhumanity of solitary confinement. <ol> <li> <a href="https://www.look2justice.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Look2Justice’s website</a> </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Ending-Isolation-Against-Solitary-Confinement/dp/0745351271" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement</a>, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-William-Blackwell/e/B0FH7PCNHP/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Christopher William Blackwell</a> (Author), <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Deborah-Zalesne/e/B0F8NTSKPY/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Deborah Zalesne</a> (Author), <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_3?ie=UTF8&field-author=Kwaneta+Harris&text=Kwaneta+Harris&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Kwaneta Harris</a> (Contributor), <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_4?ie=UTF8&field-author=Terry+Kupers&text=Terry+Kupers&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Terry Kupers</a> (Contributor) (September 2025) </li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/christopher-blackwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Christopher Blackwell’s published work in the New York Times</a> </li> </ol> Check out the OA <a href= "https://linktr.ee/openingarguments" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Linktree</a> for all the places to go and things to do!

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