On Tuesday, February 17th (5 PM; Collis Commonground) the Nathan Smith Society and the Physicians for Human Rights at Geisel present  "Locked Up, Locked Out".  This event aims to educate on mass incarceration and racial discrimination within the US Justice System and its impacts upon health, dignity and equality and to discuss some of the challenges of lowering recidivism rates.


Along with a keynote speaker, Professor Joy James from Williams College, who will speak about the injustices inherent to the US prison system, the line-up of events will also include an art gallery, a documentary screening of "Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.", and a panel discussion on the challenges of reintegration for former inmates as well as local efforts at reform.  Dinner (Tastes of Africa) is included.


RSVP required:  http://scan.me/hvpg2v4    Also includes schedule of events.   Please DO NOT RSVP for dinner head count until double/triple checking your schedules, so we can avoid unnecessary expense.    Attendance without dinner is fine!


Hope many of you will attend this very important and timely presentation.  Thanks to many NSS students (along with Geisel students) for help in organizing and to the Departments of Government and Sociology for their additional financial support.


-NSS Executive Committee and Geisel Physicians for Human Rights


Additional details about the event and the participants:

About the Documentary, Broken on all Sides:

http://brokenonallsides.com/about.php


About the Keynote speaker:

Joy James is a professor of Humanities and professor of political science at Williams College. James is author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. James is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled "Memory, Shame & Rage." She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice.James is a senior research fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is co-curator of digital repositories for the Warfield Center and the Harriet Tubman Literary Circle, an educational nonprofit organization. She is the recipient of grants, fellowships or awards from: the Fletcher Foundation; the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Bellagio Fellowship; the Aaron Diamond Foundation/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Ford Foundation; and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award."


About the Panelists:

Manish Mishra, MD: Dr. Mishra's current research interests include characterizing the effects on mental health services for care surrounding addiction and prison medicine.


Martha McLafferty and Lynn Jacobs: Mrs. McLafferty and Mrs. Jacobs serve as director and assistant director of the Hartford Restorative Justice Center: http://hartfordjusticecenter.org/about/


Sean Moore: Mr. Moore is a prison activist with extensive experience working with and mentoring incarcerated persons who are in recovery. ?-NSS