Beyond the Bars Conference
Beyond the Bars is an annual student-driven interdisciplinary conference on mass incarceration held at Columbia University. Each year the conference brings together students, faculty, activists, advocates, practitioners, those who have experienced incarceration, community members and more to connect, galvanize and deepen the work to end mass incarceration, and to build justice and equity.
The 9th Annual Beyond the Bars Conference of the Center for Justice at Columbia University is focusing on the incarceration and criminalization of women and girls, as well as their families and communities. Our focus is inclusive of transgender, non-binary,
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Ending the Incarceration of Women and Girls Thursday March 1st – 6:30-9pm Columbia Law School, Rm 106 435 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027 Building the Movement: Conversations with Patrisse Khan-Cullors Friday March 2nd 7:30-9:30pm – (Doors at
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BEYOND THE BARS 2017 RECAP Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 7th annual Beyond the Bars Conference: Transcending the Punishment Paradigm. We are grateful for the more than 1500 attendees and the 150+ speakers who joined us over
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We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the three days, all of the amazing speakers, the more than 1600 attendees, the many organizations, the Columbia Staff and all of those who worked to
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The 2015 Beyond the Bars conference was a powerful weekend that brought together people from different spaces and places to think critically about issues across the carceral continuum and discuss ways to work towards lasting, transformative justice. Kicked off by Michelle Alexander on Friday night, the
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