Pull of Gravity: EL Sawyer at TEDxCuracao

On the TEDx stage in Curacao, EL Sawyer examines the forces that pull returning citizens back into incarceration. Drawing on his own years inside the Pennsylvania state prison system and the work behind the documentary Pull of Gravity, he argues that reentry fails not because people lack resolve but because the conditions waiting for them are unchanged.

The talk is a short introduction to the argument EL develops at length in his keynote work on the unseen harms of incarceration.