Separated: Growing Up With An Incarcerated Father (Revisited)

Embodied · Dec 22, 2023 · 31m

Anita reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her beloved college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley reflects on her father's 20-year prison sentence and the untold stories of families navigating incarceration from the outside. Journalist Sylvia A. Harvey also shares how losing her mother to asthma and her father to a life sentence in prison before she was 6 years old led her to investigate the carceral system as a whole.

Meet the guests:

- Ashley Lucas, professor of theatre and drama at the University of Michigan, talks about how her experience growing up with…