W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human & Civil Rights
James Forman Jr. in Conversation
Rolling Back New York’s Excessive Sentencing
Join us as we explore judicial, legislative, and lawyering interventions to reduce lengthy prison sentences and create second chances for people incarcerated under outdated, unjust sentencing policies. The discussion will highlight groundbreaking New York legislation that could make the state a leader in second-chance sentencing reform.
Hon. Frederic Block, Senior Federal Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
David Singleton, Associate Professor, University of District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
Jennifer Soble, Executive Director, Illinois Prison Project
Mujahideen Muhammad, Founder, The Pillars of Promise
Steve Zeidman, Professor & Co-Director, CUNY Law Defenders Clinic and Second Look Project NY
Complimentary copies of Professor Forman’s Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change and Judge Block’s A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It will be provided to a limited number of event participants upon registration and attendance
A reception and book signing will follow the panel.
Join Burns Chair James Forman Jr. and a panel of experts and advocates as they examine state and federal efforts to revisit harsh prison sentences imposed decades ago.
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