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Capital Punishment in America – Evan J. Mandery (JJay) on Leonard Lopate Show
Posted on September 10, 2013 | No CommentsCheck Out John Jay Professor Even J. Mandery on The Leonard Lopate Show, discussing his new book, A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America, and the constitutionality of the death penalty. The book focuses two landmark Supreme Court cases on capital […] -
PEN Festival: “Frozen in Time–Racist Traditions and the Prison System” & “The Lock and Key”
Posted on April 30, 2013 | No CommentsFrozen 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 […] -
Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice (4/12/13)
Posted on April 3, 2013 | 1 CommentJoin 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 […] -
Broken on All Sides – Film Screening and Panel Discussion (3//9/13)
Posted on February 28, 2013 | No CommentsFilm 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 […] -
Racial Gap in Men’s Sentencing
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment“Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.” Joe Palazzolo, “Racial Gap in Men’s Sentencing,” The Wall Street Journal. February 14, 2013. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002.html For the […] -
Lynching Beyond Dixie – Michael Pfeifer on the History of Lynching (3/21/13)
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No Comments4pm on Thursday, March 21 John Jay College, Moot Court (6.68NB) space John Jay and GC Professor of History Michael Pfeifer and volume contributors William D. Carrigan and Dennis Downey speak about the history of lynching. Lynching in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries is typically considered […] -
Largest Private Prison Group in U.S. Wishes You a Happy Black History Month – COLORLINES
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsRead analysis of a recent blog post written by the president and CEO of CCA (the nation’s largest for-profit prison corporation). The article draws on work from the ACLU, the Sentencing Project, and research from several graduate students. Jorge Rivas, “Largest Private Prison Group in […] -
Conflicting Conceptions of Justice in the 1970s: Policing and Racial Disparities by Delores Jones-Brown (2/11/13)
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsPolicing and Racial Disparities Delores Jones-Brown 7:00-8:30pm, February 11, 2013 John Jay College, CUNY T-Building – Haaren Hall, Room: 630 899 10th Avenue New York, NY 10019 Delores Jones-Brown is a Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John […] -
Symposium on Race, Law and Justice: Strategies for closing the school-to-prison pipeline (2/14/13-2/15/13)
Posted on January 21, 2013 | No CommentsOFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY KINGS COUNTY CHARLES J. HYNES , District Attorney In collaboration with MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE The City University of New York DR. WILLIAM L. POLLARD, President PARTNERSHIP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Presents a Symposium on Race, Law and Justice: “Strategies for closing the school-to-prison pipeline ” […]
