“Too Close to the Flame”: Joe Ingle Speaks About His Opposition to the Death Penalty

Joe Ingle is a legendary advocate for prison reform and opponent of the death penalty who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize twice. He has been directly involved in prisons and the lives of prisoners since his community service component in his UCC ministerial training in East Harlem immediately after the Attica Prison riot of 1971. He will speak particularly about the cost to advocates of sustained prison work, as documented in his latest book "Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing Machine" (Simon & Schuster, 2024). A book sale and signing will follow the event. Ingle's visit is sponsored by Duke Divinity School, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Prison Engagement Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.