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September 2014
Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to Reduce Mass Incarceration
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…
Find out more »Growing Up Locked Down Conference
“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…
Find out more »October 2014
Shattering Captivity: Struggles of Incarcerated People Against Solitary Confinement, Control Units, and Communication Management Units
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
Find out more »Films For Liberation: Let the Fire Burn
Films For Liberation: Let the Fire Burn Friday Oct 3rd, 2014 – 7pm Malcom X Lounge, Columbia University Join Students Against Mass Incarceration for our FIRST FILMS FOR LIBERATION OF THE YEAR! On Friday, we will be watching Let the Fire Burn, a documentary about the 1985 siege on the Black liberation group MOVE by the Philadelphia Police Department. Following the screening, we will have a brief follow-up discussion on the movie, as we think about questions regarding violence, police repression,…
Find out more »Involving Students in Collaborative Coursework with People in Prison: Two Models – Justice Teaching Roundtable
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…
Find out more »Incarceration in America Conference
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…
Find out more »Implementing Evidence-Based HIV Prevention and Treating in Multi-Agency Systems
Implementing Evidence-Based HIV Prevention and Treating in Multi-Agency Systems – Findings and Lessons from a National Randomized Trial in Corrections Agencies Friday October 10th, 2014 – 1-2:30pm Mailman School of Public Health, Conference Room 532 Steven Belenko, PhD Department of Criminal Justice, Templeton University Sponsored by the T32 Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice Fellowship Program and the Mailman School of Public Health Incarceration and Public Health Initiative
Find out more »AMERICA’S PRISONS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?
AMERICA’S PRISONS: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? A discussion with: Robert Ferguson Columbia Law School Author of Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment Cathleen Price Equal Justice Initiative Benjamin Rosenberg Office of the NY County District Attorney Free and open to the public, but seating is limited. The event will be webcast live. Sponsored by the Center for American Studies
Find out more »Race, Policing, and Civil Rights: A Community Town Hall
This event, which mixes media, public dialogue, politics and arts, is the first in a series of town halls focused on exploring the community’s take on timely social issues. As the media storm over Eric Garner and Ferguson subsides, Brooklyn Independent Media seeks to keep the conversation going while finding an empowered way to move forward in a borough and nation where people of color continue to be subject to racially biased police conduct. The Town Hall will culminate in a live…
Find out more »Envisioning Characters, Uncovering Issues: Youth Reading Through the Lens of Race
The Racial Literacy Roundtable presents an open discussion about race, language differences, and other important issues in in urban education with in-service and pre-service teachers and memebers of the Teacher College community. Facilitator: Sonja Cherry-Paul, Doctoral student – Curriculum & Teaching Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Educational Consultant, and Author Pizza and refreshments will be served starting at 5:30 outside of Milbank.
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