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November 2014
Culture of Violence: Examining Harmful Juvenile Justice Practices on Rikers Island
The Columbia Prison Reform and Education Project will be hosting a teach-in on the treatment of youth on Rikers Island, the main jail complex in NYC. We will discuss punitive measures like solitary confinement, as well as movements like the Raise the Age Campaign which aims to end the practice of trying many minors as adults. The event will start with a panel discussion followed by breakout groups for more in-depth discussion of each topic led by the speakers and…
Find out more »20 Years Treating HIV Behind Bars: Lessons from the Field
Led by Dr. Josiah Rich, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Brown University. Required RSVP to [email protected] by November 4th, 2014 Light refreshments will be provided.
Find out more »The American Justice Summit
If you would like to attend, please apply here. Schedule for The American Justice Summit (subject to change) To watch free livestream of this event, go to vicenews.com. Gerald W. Lynch Theater John Jay College of Criminal Justice November 10, 2014 1:30 PM | WELCOME BY TINA BROWN THE 2.3 MILLION I’M HERE FOR Jeremy Travis (President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) presents the latest data from his recent report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. WHAT IS…
Find out more »The Justice Forum – Reimagining Justice: Narratives of Inclusion
The Justice Forum – Reimagining Justice: Narratives of Inclusion How do we change the current criminal justice system, one defined by mass incarceration, a paradigm of punishment, and racial discrimination? Changing how we achieve justice through policing, courts, jails, prisons and reentry must include changing the public narrative about people who become involved with the criminal justice system. We must move away from the current narratives that pathologize people and their behavior and provides little consideration for the current and…
Find out more »Life in Prison: Artists Bear Witness
Life in Prison: Artists Bear Witness The Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University and OF NOTE, the award-winning arts & activism magazine, hosts a conversation with three dynamic artists who use their creative voice to examine the complex experiences, both personal and political, faced by the two million men, women, and youth currently imprisoned in the United States. Via theatre, photography, and video, these artists, Samara Gaev, Russell Frederick, and Lori Waselchuck illuminate the ways in…
Find out more »Deliberate Resistance: LGBT Prisoner Rights 20 Years After Farmer v. Brennan
Join us for a day of strategic discussion about criminal justice policy and practice as it affects LGBT people in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities. In 1994, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of prisoners to hold prison officials accountable for “deliberate indifference” to their safety. The case was brought by Dee Farmer, a transgender prisoner who experienced assault and abuse because of her gender identity. We commemorate Dee Farmer and all incarcerated persons who are resisting abusive…
Find out more »Film Screening: Out In The Night
Join director blair dorosh walter for a screening of Out in the Night, a documentary about the NJ4. Other guests TBA. From Facebook: OUT IN THE NIGHT follows the journey of a group of African American teenagers who went to a gay-friendly neighborhood in New York City for a night out. These lesbian and gender non-conforming friends, Patreese, Renata, Terrain and Venice, were confronted by an older man on the street. They defended themselves. Strangers jumped in to support them and…
Find out more »SAYING THEIR NAMES PROJECT + BLACK OUT DAY
In continuing to raise awareness of issues of police brutality, the Black Law Students Association presents: Saying Their Names Project + Black Out Day From 12:10-1:10PM, we will have lunch for the law school community in JG 101 to showcase the posters. The entry ticket is the simple price of paying your respects for the lost lives by wearing all black, hence the “Black Out Day” title. Every 28 hours, a black person is extrajudicially killed by a police officer,…
Find out more »Youth, Media and Educational Justice: Building Community Through Collaborative Inquiry – Justice Teaching Roundtable Series
Youth, Media and Educational Justice: Building Community Through Collaborative Inquiry – Justice Teaching Roundtable Series Tuesday November 18th, 2014 – 3–5pmTeachers College, Russell Hall Rm 305 Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Associate Professor of English Education Teachers CollegeLalitha Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Technology and Education, Teachers CollegeYouth, Media, and Educational Justiceymej.orgFor the past three years (2011-2014), members of the Youth, Media, and EducationalJustice (YMEJ) project have been engaged in the exploration of education andwellbeing in the lives of youth who are involved with…
Find out more »Enclosures: Quotidian Carceralities in the US and Occupied Palestine
From our Colleagues in GSAPP Enclosures: Quotidian Carceralities in the US and Occupied Palestine Thursday, November 20, 2014, 12pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University GSAPP Angela Davis Responses by Dean Amale Andraos and Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia GSAPP Priority seating for Columbia-affiliated students with ID. “It has become so much a part of our lives that it requires a great feat of the imagination to envision life beyond the prison,” wrote Angela Davis in her call for prison abolition, Are…
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