Crime After Crime: A Film Screening & Discussion
Participants
Joshua Safran, Elizabeth Sackler
Crime After Crime (Yoav Potash, 2011, 93 min.) follows the story of Deborah Peagler, a survivor of domestic violence who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 25 years for the murder of her abuser. Attorneys Nadia Costa and Joshua Safran reopen her case pro bono in a fight to rectify injustice against battered women. A dialogue between Joshua Safran and Elizabeth Sackler follows the screening. Introduction by Elizabeth Sackler. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
Part of the series "States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color."