The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice

The 50

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Marquee Cinema, Union South
@ 6:30 pm

Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with discussion to follow.

At a time when the California state prison system was dangerously overcrowded, and more than 85% of its inmates were involved in drug uses, one unlikely program looked inward for the answer and took a chance on 50 men serving life inside.

Post-screening discussion facilitators

Kevin Mullen is an Assistant Professor of Continuing Studies and the Director of Adult Education for the UW Odyssey Project. His work focuses on expanding access to higher education for low-income adult students from marginalized communities, especially the role that writing plays in creating a stronger sense of self-efficacy, voice, and community. In addition to the core Odyssey class, he has taught English 100 (Introduction to College Writing) courses for Odyssey alumni and incarcerated students in the Odyssey Beyond Bars program. His class at Oakhill Correctional Institution in 2019 was the first in-person, credit-bearing course taught by UW-Madison in a prison in over 100 years. He also oversees the Odyssey Family Learning Center, where past and present students can come with their children to work on homework with a team of tutors.

A man smiles broadly at the camera. His braided, dark black hair peeks out beneath a black fedora hat with a wide satin ribbon. He has a black mustache. He wears a bright white button-down shirt, a black-striped satin tie, and a black suit jacket. He stands in front of a wall featuring floral wallpaper, a fire alarm sensor just visible above his head.James Morgan is Community Organizer with MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, Equity & Solidarity), a grassroots, interfaith, nonpartisan, non-profit organization working for transformative justice in Dane County and Wisconsin. Previously he worked as the Lead State-Certified Peer Support Specialist and trainer at JustDane, previously the Madison-area Urban Ministries, where he assisted persons returning to the community from various levels of incarceration. After 30 years of incarceration, James is a graduate of the U.W.Odyssey Program, the WARF UpStart Program for Minorities and Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, Gamaliel National Leadership Training, JLUSA (JustLeadershipUSA) Emerging Leaders Training, (MAP) Madison Apprenticeship Program, Just Danes’ Circles of Support, a facilitator with the University of Wisconsin’s Pathways to Parenthood After Incarceration Program, (PIO) and the University of Cincinnati Core Correctional Practices Training.