Art, ethics, and the prison-industrial complex blend and inform each other in Peabody Institute faculty composer Judah Adashi‘s new work, Unseen: Kalief Browder and Solitary Confinement in America.

Unseen, which will premiere in part at a Johns Hopkins University practical ethics event later this month, grapples with the ethical responsibility of artists operating within their sociopolitical context, and examines the ethics of solitary confinement and the mass incarceration of African-Americans.

Browder was 16 years old when he was arrested and held at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York for a crime he said he did not commit. He remained in the prison without a trial for three years, spending two of those years in solitary confinement. Following his release, Browder struggled with psychological trauma. He committed suicide two years later.

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