Reducing Incarceration: Endless Punishment, Long-Term Sentences, and Aging in Prison – Release and Reentry
The symposium will be livestreamed the day of the event for those are not able to attend in person. Please click the link for livestreaming:
Reducing Incarceration Livestream
This symposium, titled “Reducing Incarceration: Endless Punishment, Long-Term Sentences, and Aging in Prison — or Release and Reentry,” is an event planned by the Justice Initiative at Columbia University, with the co-sponsorship of the Correctional Association of New York, the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP), the Osborne Association, the Be the Evidence Project of Fordham University and the Florence V. Burden Foundation.
The symposium will be held on Friday 28 March, 2014, 10am-5:15pm at the Mailman School of Public Health Mailman Auditorium (722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032). It is part of a larger campaign calling public and official attention to the problem of long-term sentences, the need for reform in parole policies and practices, the aging prison and re-entering population, and the individual and societal costs of the current punitive system.
Schedule of Events
Welcome – Samuel Roberts, Columbia University, Justice Initiative
10:15 – 10:20
Opening Remarks – Soffiyah Elijah, The Correctional Association
10:20 – 10:30
Panel 1, Living Conditions for Aging and Elderly Individuals Inside Prisons
10:30 – 11:45
Brian Fischer, Formerly of the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Karen Murtagh, Prisoner Legal Services
Will Bunting, American Civil Liberties Union
Larry White, Hope Lives for Lifers Project
Mrs. Rose LaBorde
Moderated by Elizabeth Gaynes, The Osborne Association
Panel 2, Barriers to Release
12:00 – 1:15
Mujahid Farid, Release Aging People in Prison / RAPP Campaign
Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch
Ed Hammock, NYS Parole Board
Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project
Moderated by Kathy Boudin, Criminal Justice Initiative: Supporting Children, Families, and Communities
Panel 3, Successful Reentry of Returning Citizens
2:30 – 3:45
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, NYC Department of Health and Human Services
Gloria Rubero
Sandra Pullman, Office of the New York State Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau
Elizabeth Gaynes, The Osborne Association
Tina Maschi, Fordham University, Be the Evidence Project
Moderated by Annette Dickerson, Formerly of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Panel 4, Potential Strategies Moving Forward
4:00 – 5:15
Danylle Rudin, Florence V. Burden Foundation
Reverend N.J. L’Heureux, Jr., Queens Federation of Churches
Soffiyah Elijah, The Correctional Association of New York
Lynn Cortella, NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Clinton Lacey, Department of Probation
Moderated by Tina Maschi, Fordham University, Be the Evidence Project
Where: Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health (the Mailman Auditorium of the Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168th Str.)
When: Friday 28 March, 10am-5pm