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  • Panel: Deportation Laws and Their Local Impact (9/16; 4-6pm @ JJay)

    Panel: Deportation Laws and Their Local Impact The Inaugural Event for a semester-long Immigration and Deportation Initiative at John Jay. Monday, September 16, Time: 4-6pm 9.64 Conference Room, New Building, John Jay College, 524 W. 59th St, NYC RSVP to oar@jjay.cuny.edu. Commissioner Dora Schriro, NYC Department […]

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  • “Dealing with Crime in New York”

    As New Yorkers head to the polls this fall to elect a new Mayor, the issue of criminal justice is front and center. In the Opinion Section’s “Room for Debate,” The New York Times has published the suggestions of  six experts (including several CUNY faculty – Maria […]

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  • We’re back…. Fall 2013

    Apologies for our  hiatus. We hope you had a relaxing, rejuvenating, productive, inspiring, refreshing summer! We look forward to ramping up our discussion of prisons and criminal/juvenile justice on our blog.  We invite graduate students and faculty to submit posts for our “Featured Analysis” section […]

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  • PEN Festival: “Frozen in Time–Racist Traditions and the Prison System” & “The Lock and Key”

    Frozen in Time: Racist Traditions and the Prison System Saturday, May 04, 3 – 4:30pm Cooper Union: Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square, NYC With Soffiyah Elijah, Laura Kurgan, Marc Mauer, Susan Tucker. Moderated by Jackson Taylor In the United States, the growth of the […]

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  • Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration – Nicole Fleetwood (5/3/13)

    Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration Nicole Fleetwood (Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers) Fri 5/3 @ 2PM – Room 4406, English Lounge, Graduate Center, CUNY   Popular entertainment, journalistic exposes, and documentary sobriety produce countless images of “life behind […]

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  • Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice (4/12/13)

    Join the Prison Studies Group for our Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Friday, April 12 at The Graduate Center, CUNY. “Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice” features original research from PhD candidates from across the country, discussing historical, contemporary, national and international […]

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  • Prisons and Police in 1914 NYC – Thai Jones, Speaks at Gotham Center (3/6/13)

    As part of the Gotham Center’s Forum series, historian Thai Jones will be discussing his latest book, More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy on March 6, 2013 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Jones has shared an excerpt […]

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  • Broken on All Sides – Film Screening and Panel Discussion (3//9/13)

    Film Screening and Community Discussion Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S. Saturday, March 9, 2013 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Riverside Church enter at 91 Claremont Avenue (between West 120th & 121st Streets, NY, NY) Panel discussion […]

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  • Call for Blog Post Authors – Featured Analysis

    Can you fill in these blanks with any of the following terms? police, jail, prison, reentry, the war on drugs, criminal justice, felony disenfranchisement, solitary confinement, political prisoners, immigrant detention, parole, school-to-prison pipeline, probation, crime, private prisons, juvenile justice, surveillance …. I am a graduate student […]

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  • Featured Analysis — The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding Justice, by Rachel Wahl

    Police officers locking the gate of a police station, during a protest condemning the rape of a 23-year-old woman. Photo cropped. (Tsering Topgyal / AP) The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding Justice Rachel Wahl   “Hold police accountable for rapes” cries out […]

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