What is the impact of solitary confinement on individuals? What does it mean to "re-enter" society after years or decades in prison? What are key issues surrounding sentencing and prison reforms? Join the Pulitzer Center and the Washington University in St. Louis Prison Education Project (PEP) for a virtual community conversation on July 25, 2022, about these and related issues in tandem with the St. Louis performances of The BOX.

The conversation comes just days ahead of three performances in St. Louis, Missouri, of The BOX, a play written by Sarah Shourd, a survivor of solitary confinement, in collaboration with other survivors. It is about collective resistance and personal transformation, inspired by stories collected from within U.S. prisons through years of in-depth letter correspondence and visits with incarcerated individuals across the country. The BOX is on its nationwide End of Isolation Tour to 10 U.S. cities between July and September 2022, with the three St. Louis performances set for July 27-29.

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