The award-winning 2016 documentary "The Prison in 12 Landscapes" — about prisons and how they take shape in the U.S. — will be shown on Friday, Sept. 14, at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse in Springfield, 21 Fairground Rd. The film runs from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, with a discussion afterward to learn more about the The National Prison Strike taking place between August 21st and September 9th.

The film examines how more people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes" is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.

The National Prison strike has been called for by the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, a group of incarcerated individuals working for human rights. Inmates will carry out work strike, sit-ins and boycotts to bring attention and call for change. Read more about the strike and the full list of demands at http://sawarimi.org/national-prison-strike.

Free admission and light refreshments. All welcome.

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