Harvard Crimson: New Harvard Student Campaign Calls on University to Divest From Prisons

The Harvard Crimson wrote about the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign’s meeting at Harvard Law School.

Students called on Harvard to divest from the prison industry during the first public event held by the newly formed Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign Thursday evening.

The event, hosted at the Law School’s Wasserstein Hall, featured students speakers addressing a near-capacity crowd of roughly 100. Hakeem Angulu ’20 and Jackie Wang, a graduate student in African and African American Studies and author of “Carceral Capitalism,” began the event by speaking about the history of the American prison system as well as racial disparities in conviction and incarceration rates.

Read more at the Harvard Crimson.