18 Sep 2014 - 6:30 PM
Syracuse
Featuring a presentation from:
Professor Joe Margulies ’82, Visiting Professor of Law and Government; Rob Scott, executive director of the Cornell Prison Education Program; Ed Bailey, a former prison participant in the Cornell Prison Education Program
Thursday, September 18
6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Doors open, reception with coffee
7:00 – 7:45 p.m. Presentation and Q&A
7:45 – 8:30 p.m. Networking
The Tech Garden | 235 Harrison St., Syracuse
$10.00 per person. Please RSVP by Friday, September 12.
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“Something is Happening, But You Don’t Know What it Is. Do You, Mr. Jones?”: The Curious Case of American Criminal Justice
Over the past decade, states across the country have begun to reform their criminal justice systems. Mandatory minimum sentences are disappearing, felonies are becoming misdemeanors, and misdemeanors are becoming legal. For the first time in nearly 50 years, prison populations are falling and states are taking the unprecedented step of closing unused prisons. Pundits on the political left and right denounce the war on drugs as an abject failure. The number of people sentenced to die, and the number of people executed, have fallen to historic lows. Something strange is in the air. Could it be that reform is upon us? Many are skeptical, for good reason. Let’s take a closer look.