This conversation took place at the Baltimore Book Festival Radical Book Tent in 2012. Laura Whitehorn, Former political prisoner and prisoner-rights advocate Laura Whitehorn joins Dean Spade, co-founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, for a discussion about the prison-industrial complex and the ways in which the law stacks the deck against people who don’t conform to the “norms” of society. A rare opportunity to hear these two celebrated and beloved organizers speak together! Laura Whitehorn is the author of The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind.