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The Harvard Black Alumni Society of New York (HBASNY) & A Coalition of Columbia University Student Organizations invite you to a Town Hall for change.Town Hall: Now What? The Role of Millennials in the Wake of Mike BrownWhere: Columbia Law SchoolWhen: September 17th, 2014, 6:30 pm Who: Engaged and unified community members What:. The Town Hall will be an open forum led by a host of academics, thought leaders, community leaders and law enforcement to encourage genuine dialogue and tangible…

he 2014-15 PRI Occasional Series on Reentry Research will highlight issues raised by the groundbreaking report recently released by the National Academy of Sciences, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Causes and Consequences. Please join us on September 23rd for the first installment in this series, which will feature Sara Wakefield, co-author of Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality, and other speakers with expertise on issues concerning the children of incarcerated parents. Co-sponsored by the Osborne…

The Brennan Center for Justice Presents Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to ​Reduce Mass Incarceration featuring a Keynote Address from: The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr. U.S. Attorney General Tuesday, September 23, 2014 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall NYU School of Law 40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal St. and Sullivan St.) New York, NY 10012 You must RSVP to attend this event:  http://www.brennancenter.org/event/shifting-law-enforcement-goals The need to reform law enforcement practices is now at the center of…

“Growing Up Locked Down” (GULD) is a 3-Day multi-media,  multi-cultural, solutions-based Juvenile Justice Conference presented by The Gathering for Justice and Justice League NYC. The Conference will include plenaries with Keynote Speakers Harry Belafonte, Bryan Stevenson, Cornel West and Bart Lubow, Panels and Workshops led by noted Juvenile Justice advocates and activists including Soffiyah Elijah, Khary Lazarre-White, Tamika Mallory, George Gresham, members of Central Park 5 and Jena 6, Clinton Lacy, Glenn E. Martin, Jeannette Bocanegra, Thenjiwe McHarris, Tynesha McHarris, Rukia…

Shattering Captivity: Struggles of Incarcerated People Against Solitary Confinement, Control Units, and Communication Management Units Thursday, October 2, 7:00 pm Interference Archive Participants are formerly incarcerated people who experienced control units and solitary confinement, and the sister of a man currently in a Communication Management Unit (CMU): Tyrell Muhammad, Five Mualima-ak, Susan Rosenberg, and Sharmin Sadequee

Involving Students in Collaborative Coursework with People in Prison: Two Models Philip Genty, Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor  in Professional Responsibility, Columbia Law School Tuesday October 7th, 2014 – 4-6pm Columbia School of Social Work, Rm 312 In this roundtable session we will discuss two types of course modules that involve students in direct collaboration with people in prison:  an interactive, discussion-oriented module in which students and incarcerated people are taught together; and a module for students in professional school…

Incarceration in America Conference  Organized by the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) Registration Form The United States has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world, a rate that has increased by 500 percent in the past 40 years. In response to this crisis, Bennington College will host a two-day conference at the The Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) focused on improving the justice and incarceration system in America. The conference is integrated into CAPA’s…