Event Description:
How can New York continue on a common sense, data-driven path away from the mass incarceration era?
Even as the State’s daily prison population has declined since its peak in the late 1990s, over 30,000 disproportionately Black and Brown New Yorkers are imprisoned today. Center for Community Alternatives and Data Collaborative for Justicewill bring together formerly incarcerated people and families with incarcerated loved ones, alongside policymakers, researchers, and experts, to reflect on legislative opportunities to advance justice and safety and address decades of draconian sentencing laws. Speakers will consider strategies including the repeal of mandatory minimums, “second look” policies allowing judges to reconsider excessive sentences, and earned time programs that prioritize in-prison transformation rather than incarcerating people for as long as possible. We will also place New York in a national context, both historically and in the present day.
Ultimately, speakers will provoke a conversation informed by lived experience, decades of research, and an appreciation of the fundamental and equal humanity of all people, including those languishing in State prisons today.
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Place: Hybrid options at John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street, Room L.63 OR via Zoom.
Directions: In-person attendees are invited to arrive at 12:30 p.m. for refreshments. Room L.63 is a large space straight ahead from the entrance at 59th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues (accessible via Columbus Circle A/B/C/D or 57thStreet N/Q/R/W).
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