IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America

By Truthworker Theatre Company
November 2014

JACK's youth theater company-in-residence, led by Samara Gaev, presents their second original theater piece developed during their 18-month residency at JACK. Created through direct conversation with incarcerated people-of-color, IN|PRISM examines the impacts and practices of solitary confinement in US prisons, tracing one man's remarkable capacity for liberation within the walls of death row. For this piece, Truthworker has had the unique and humbling opportunity to work directly with Jarvis Jay Masters, an innocent man on death row, who has been incarcerated since the age of 19 in San Quentin Prison and institutionalized since he was a young boy. Jarvis is working from the inside to collaborate with Truthworker through this creation process.