More about McNair's in progress documentary: It is a raw, unfiltered multimedia experience exposing the reality of generational incarceration in Black America - where prison did not just imprison individuals, but reshaped entire families, neighborhoods, and futures. Centered around the legacy of Lorton Reformatory and featuring presenters Mr. Jonathan McNair, Mr. Nathaniel Bailey, his son Mr. Delonta Bailey, and nephew Mr. John Bailey. This presentation blends lived experience, historical truth, and documentary storytelling from the communities surrounding Washington, DC. This is not a polished conversation about statistics. This is lived reality. A reality where prison visits became childhood memories. Where survival replaced stability. Where addiction, violence, over-policing, poverty, and the War on Drugs collided to create cycles many families inherited before they ever had a chance to choose differently. Through documentary footage, archival visuals, personal testimony, and immersive storytelling, Inherited Time pulls audiences directly into the emotional weight left behind by incarceration: Fathers disappearing for decades. Mothers forced to hold families together alone. Children learning prison rules before life lessons. Young men growing up expecting funerals, jail cells, or both. Communities becoming conditioned to trauma so deeply that pain started to feel normal. This presentation confronts the uncomfortable truth that mass incarceration did not happen by accident. It was built over generations through fear, policy, addiction, politics, and neglect - leaving entire communities trapped between survival and punishment. But this story is bigger than prison. It is about what gets passed down when healing never comes. The anger. The silence. The grief. The survival instincts. The trauma families carry without ever naming it. "Documenting Lorton: Inherited Time" asks audiences to confront a haunting question: What happens when prison stops being an exception and becomes part of a family's inheritance? This is not just a presentation. It is testimony. It is historical memory. It is a visual archive for the people and families too often reduced to mugshots, statistics, and forgotten headlines. And above all, it is an honest reflection on the generations still carrying time that was never truly theirs. Up next in the series: ECHOES FROM THE INSIDE with museum intern Elena Kahn MENTAL HEALTH - BEHIND BARS with Kyle Hulbert SHOUT! with author/poet Susanna Rich (book talk & signing)