The Justice Initiative, the Criminal Justice Caucus and the Criminal Justice Initiative: Supporting Children, Families and Communities are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended, contributed and helped to organize this years conference. This was the biggest Beyond the Bars conference... READ MORE
Beyond The Bars: Breaking Through is the fourth annual student- driven interdisciplinary conference on mass incarceration held at Columbia University. Given the greater consciousness in society of the state of Mass Incarceration in the United States, this conference seeks to enable
Art and the Politics of Mass Incarceration Well Contested Sites A public symposium Saturday, March 1, 2014 | 1–2:30 p.m. Held Auditorium | Barnard Hall | 3rd Floor Barnard College Join us on Saturday, March 1st, for a free screening
The goal of The Trayvon Effect conference, set to launch on February 28th, 2014 at Teachers, College, Columbia University, is to encourage dialogue and action around racial profiling, Black masculinity and the impact of social constructs on race, education and
Elders Behind Bars Soffiyah Elijah Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York Dean Linda P. Fried and Dr. Lisa Metsch, chair of Sociomedical Sciences, are hosting a series of seminars that will apply a public health lens to
The Justice Initiative at Columbia University along with a group of university and prison-based educators working within New York State released a statement today to express our support for Governor Cuomo’s recent announcement to bring back state funded college courses.... READ MORE
Beyond The Bars: Breaking Through is the fourth annual student- driven interdisciplinary conference on mass incarceration held at Columbia University. Given the greater consciousness in society of the state of Mass Incarceration in the United States, this conference seeks to enable... READ MORE
The Justice Initiative is working in collaboration with students and faculty from SIPA, and John Jay on The Justice Fact of the Week Campaign, focused on raising awareness of issues of incarceration and criminal justice in the New York State... READ MORE
If you dug The Wiz……you’ll love WHAT IT IZ! The Spoken Wordical A prison abolitionist hip hop theater remix of The Wiz! Directed by Andre Robinson; Executive Produced by Bryonn Bain Visuals and installation design by Jazzmen Lee Johnson, Lauren Kristin, Kyla Searle and
As a part of the What is Justice? Film Series, there will be a screening of Lost In Detention with a post screening Q&A with director and producer Rick Young and award winning journalist and correspondent Maria Hinojosa
