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Wednesday 2–2:45 pm
Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory Crime and Punishment
Shaka Senghor and Scott Turow
Wednesday 2–2:45 pm
Dave Barry and Greg Iles in Conversation Jack London Room
Dave Barry and Greg Iles Scott Turow, attorney and best-selling author of crime novels, and Shaka
Wednesday 2–2:45 pm Senghor, convicted murderer, college lecturer, and author, will have an important
John Steinbeck Room conversation on the criminal justice system. Senghor is uniquely qualified to speak
on this subject having spent nineteen years in prison for second degree murder,
Join festival favorite Dave Barry and Greg Iles for a wide-ranging, freewheeling,
anything goes conversation between two literary friends (and band mates). seven of them in solitary confinement.
“We live in a society where we talk about human
rights violations, we’re critical about the government
and what they’re doing at Guantanamo Bay. But in
states around the country, Guantanamo Bay is playing
out every day and we’re not doing a damn thing
about it.”
— Shaka Senghor on solitary confinement
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