Prisontown

May 9th - 19th, 2024

A Writer was driving down a dark country road outside of Atlanta several years ago when his phone lit up with a text from his brother, an immigration attorney. “How much of an activist are you?”

After receiving the message, the question continued to haunt the Writer and set him off on a literal and figurative path of discovery back to his once-thriving hometown of Lumpkin, Georgia, now dying and kept alive by the nation’s most notorious federal immigration detention centers. As he talks to those trapped in the prison system, the ghost makes a simple but incredibly hard request - SEE.