Interviewee: Bonnie Kerness is the current coordinator of the Healing and Transformative Justice Project in the Newark office of the American Friends Service Committee. She has been a lifelong activist committed to prisoners' rights, and founded the Prison Watch Project in the late 1970s after watching activists condemned to prison and the human rights violations they experienced. She has become an outspoken advocate for prisoners’ rights as human rights, specifically for speaking out against the use of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation as form of punishment. Bonnie began her life as an activist as a young teen, and continues to serve as a role model to young women leaders. Interviewer: Beth Breslaw. IWL scholar, class of 2011.
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