When Sarah Higinbotham wanted to teach a literature class in a prison, there were no opportunities in Georgia prisons. She and Bill Taft decided to change that, forming the nonprofit organization Common Good Atlanta, a grassroots program that offers higher education courses to incarcerated people.
A new documentary, “Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration,” is being screened at the annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival on Sept. 21. The documentary director Hal Jacobs and Kara Walker, executive director of the Morehouse Festival, joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk about the impact of education for the incarcerated and other festival features.
Interview highlights:
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