High school students comment on criminal justice system
By Nicole Jones
Tonight, Seniors at City Arts and Technology are flexing their filmmaking muscles and showcasing their short documentary films about the American prison system and mental health institutionalization. The screening is the result of a three week project combining work from government, world literature and art classes. Students learned about the criminal justice system in government class and chose topics like immigration detention, private prisons, solitary confinement and juvenile justice to report on. In literature class, students analyzed “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,” while in art class students created t-shirts, buttons and stickers to represent views on their selected issues.
The 3-5 minute student films will be shown tonight at City Arts & Technology High School, 325 La Grande Ave., San Francisco (Excelsior District) tonight at 6:30pm.
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