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Conditions of Confinement and Mass Incarceration: A Human Rights Discussion
March 31, 2015 @ 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join Columbia University Amnesty International, in partnership with Columbia Black Students Organization, Columbia Child Rights, and Columbia FLIP (First Generation Low Income Partnership), on Tuesday, March 31st at 8:30pm in Hamilton 602 for a panel discussion on the state of prison conditions and the legal, psychological, and social consequences of incarceration and the circumstances that prisoners must confront. With an inspiring and dynamic group of speakers, we will discuss conditions of confinement in the context of human rights discourses surrounding the use of torture and mass incarceration, and will learn how prisoner rights, immigrant rights, and criminal justice movements are working to expose and reform the damaging structure of the prison industrial complex and conditions of confinement.
Joining the conversation are:
Kathy Boudin – Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative at Columbia School of Social Work
Five Mualimm-ak – Director of Incarcerated Nation Corp.
Christine Herrman – Project Director of the Vera Institute’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections
Susan Gottesfeld – Associate Executive Director of The Osborne Association
Nicole Smith – Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic at CUNY School of Law
*Please arrive by 8:20pm to secure a seat