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Make your commitment: Contributing to criminal justice reform
  How can teaching Plato in prisons teach us what justice is?  Plato’s Republic begins with Athenians asking: what is justice? Now, through the Justice-in-Education initiative, Columbia faculty and students look for answers in a setting that goes well beyond the theoretical,... READ MORE

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 the four days. This... READ MORE

Introductory Circle Training
Introductory Circle Training May 3rd and 4th, 2017 – 9:30am – 4pm (both days) Columbia Law School – 435 W. 116th St – Case Lounge – 7th Floor This training will introduce Restorative Justice principles and cover the basics of Restorative

Envisioning Life After Incarceration: A Gendered Response
Please join The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS) and the Center for Justice for the first in a series of interactive panels on women and mass incarceration and criminalization. “Envisioning Life after Incarceration” will focus on the

Why Education Matters
by Professor Geraldine Downey, Director of the Center for Justice at Columbia University Young people with a criminal history may face a lifetime of marginalization but we can support their transition to adulthood through education, says Geraldine Downey, Professor of... READ MORE

Mass Supervision and the Making of the Carceral Citizen
“Mass Supervision and the Making of the Carceral Citizen”, a talk by Reuben Jonathan Miller, PhD, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Thursday, April 27th at 4pm in room C03,

Closing Reception for “Life after Life Inside”
Join us for a celebration on the final day of our exhibition of Sara Bennett’s “Life After Life Inside”. There will be a panel featuring experts in the field of mass incarceration along with women featured in the photographs, followed

Center for Justice featured in the Columbia Newsletter
By Bashar Makhay Spring 2017 Issue   In 2014 Columbia University’s Center for Justice, now headed by Geraldine Downey, grew out of a yearlong pilot project called the Justice Initiative. Its origins date back to 2009 with the founding of... READ MORE

THE INVITATION: JUSTICE INVOLVED
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Columbia Law School present THE INVITATION: JUSTICE INVOLVEDColumbia University – Altschul Auditorium 420 W. 118th St Sunday, April 23, 2017 7:00pm EST Press Contacts: Meghan Bartley, [email protected] Nancy Goldfarb, [email protected]   The Broadway Advocacy Coalition