Writer-in-Residence Workshop: Investigative Journalism - Our Last Best Hope When Democracy Corrodes In-Person

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mark Arax has spent decades chronicling the soul of California through essays, history, biography, and investigative reporting. Join us as he presents a workshop on his work exposing brutality, murder and state coverup inside California's prison industrial complex.

Pre-readings:

• Arax, Mark. “Tales of Brutality Behind Bars.” Los Angeles Times. August 21, 1996.

• Arax, Mark and Mark Gladstone. “State Thwarted Brutality Probe at Corcoran Prison, Investigators Say.” Los Angeles Times. July 5, 1996.

• Arax, Mark and Mark Gladstone. “Only California Uses Deadly Force in Inmate Fights.” Los Angeles Times. October 18, 1998.

Related LibGuide: Writer in Residence 2025-26: Mark Arax by Sara Davidson Squibb

Date:

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Time:

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Time Zone:

Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)

Location:

COB2-170

Audience:

  Campus Community     Campus Faculty & Staff     Graduate Students     Undergraduates  

Categories:

  Workshop