The Justice Roundtable calendar features its meetings and events, in addition to relevant Capitol Hill briefings and hearings, and partner and affiliate workshops, trainings, conferences, and other events.
INVITATION: Campaign to End Life Imprisonment Launch Event
The Sentencing Project and Public Welfare Foundation are pleased to invite you to the Campaign to End Life Imprisonment launch event, featuring the release of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentencesauthored by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. Kirkus Reviews describes the book as “a riveting, passionate case against lifetime incarceration and a plea for criminal justice reform.” The forum will also premiere Brave New Films’ examination of the impact of life sentences. While violent crime has generally declined for the…
Find out more »12/4: Campaign to End Life Imprisonment Launch Event
The Sentencing Project and Public Welfare Foundation are pleased to invite you to the Campaign to End Life Imprisonment launch event, featuring the release of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences authored by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. Kirkus Reviews describes the book as “a riveting, passionate case against lifetime incarceration and a plea for criminal justice reform.” The forum will also premiere Brave New Films’ examination of the impact of life sentences. While violent crime has generally declined for the…
Find out more »RSVP for Special Briefing: Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice System Innovations
The National Council for Behavioral Health, with Senators Debbie Stabenow and Roy Blunt, invite you to a lunch briefing to hear from law enforcement officers and behavioral health clinics on an innovative bipartisan initiative that builds treatment capacity in communities while promoting collaboration between the criminal justice and behavioral health delivery systems. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are increasing access to addiction and mental health treatment; addressing the ongoing nationwide shortage of addiction treatment providers; and supporting criminal justice…
Find out more »Criminal Justice Reform: The Road Ahead
With the fate of major bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation hanging in the balance on Capitol Hill, the bill’s primary co-sponsors, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), will join The Washington Post on Tuesday, December 4, to discuss the likelihood that Congress will move forward with a vote on the proposed law before the end of the year. Other speakers, including Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.) as well as supporters and opponents of federal and state criminal justice reform proposals, will highlight important debates around reform…
Find out more »Impact/Ideas panel on human impacts of prison conditions
IMPACT/IDEAS Panel discussion on the human impacts of prison conditions What is the human impact of conditions today inside a prison? How would we describe the wide gap between what prisons say they are trying to accomplish, and the actual effect of incarceration on the people inside, and why does it matter? How do we work to make prisons more humane while we also work to dismantle mass incarceration? On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, Impact Justice is hosting three panelists…
Find out more »National Reentry Network Fundraiser
The National Reentry Network for Returning Citizens, Third Annual Fundraiser and Awards Celebration will recognize unflagging leadership and advocacy from members of our community. Honorees are: Cedric Hendricks, Associate Director Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), Mannone Butler, Director Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), Tony Lewis Jr. Youth Advocate and Activist, Isa Mirza Policy Advisor Foley Hoag, LLP, Emily Churchman Kobayashi, Grant Writing/Volunteer and Eric Weaver, Deputy Director R.E.A.D.Y Center. Mistress of Ceremonies Aja Taylor, Advocacy Director Bread for the City and Shae Harris, Policy Advisor for the Deputy…
Find out more »Dec 11 2018, JUSTICE ROUNDTABLE QUARTERLY ASSEMBLY
SORRY, RSVPS ARE CLOSED. WE ARE AT CAPACITY. Click here to RSVP for the Justice Roundtable Quarterly Assembly
Find out more »Webinar: Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! Stories About Organizing Against the School-to-Prison Pipeline
December 11th, 2018 2:00 - 3:00pm ET The new book Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! features voices from the frontlines of a growing movement for educational justice across the United States. Organizers and activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and successes, and offer practical organizing strategies and community-based alternatives to traditional education reform and privatization schemes. These powerful stories teach us the hard-won lessons of organizers from across the country — and in conjunction with Dignity…
Find out more »Community Town Hall Forum: Local Control of DC Parole
Impacted by the criminal justice system? Join Local Parole DC for a discussion of issues that impact you or someone you know Local Control of DC Parole Community Townhall Forum
Find out more »Emerging Issues in Criminal Justice: What Is Happening at the Forefront of Reform
Please join the Justice Policy Institute and Miller & Chevalier for lunch and a panel discussion on Emerging Issues in Criminal Justice: What Is Happening at the Forefront of Reform Friday, December 14, 2018 Lunch: 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Miller & Chevalier 900 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20006 Host: Michael J. Satin, Member, Miller & Chevalier Moderator: Katharine Huffman, Founding Principal, The Raben Group & Executive Director, Square One Project, Columbia University Justice Lab Panelists: Marc…
Find out more »The Meaning Of Life Book Talk: Washington, D.C.
Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis will discuss their new book, The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences,at Politics and Prose.
Find out more »Data for Black Lives II
Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action. Register here!
Find out more »2nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM RALLY
The Virginia Prison Justice Network (VAPJN) Present 2nd ANNUAL VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM RALLY Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 - From: 2pm to 3pm Bell Tower on Capitol Square, Richmond, VA 23219 The Facebook page is “2nd Annual Virginia Prison Reform Rally” Last year’s rally drew more than 300 people, most of them former prisoners or family members. This tremendous turnout happened because so many prisoners encouraged their loved ones to attend. The more we can promote the rally behind the walls,…
Find out more »Join us for the first of a 10-part webinar series on our #WORKINGfuture campaign’s Bill of Rights for Criminalized Workers
#1: The Right to Human Dignity and People-First Language "See How To Register"
Find out more »SAVE THE DATE! JANUARY 17 TRIBUTE TO JAMES FORMAN
SNCC Legacy Project presents: Celebrating our Unsung Hero James Forman An Evening of Remembrance Thursday, January 17, 2019 6:30-8:30PM Program to include: Panel of SNCC Veterans * James Forman Jr., winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book, "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" * Reparations and the Black Manifesto * Videos * Refreshments * Music and song African-American Civil War Museum 1925 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 For more information, contact…
Find out more »Black & Brown on Blue: Piercing the Police Wall of Silence
Policing Accountability Event Flyer RSVP here Heroic activists have pushed for change in policing for years, but recently push has come from police officers themselves. The NYPD 12, and the PG13, are current examples. In 2015, 12 people of color officers filed a landmark class-action lawsuit in NY over illegal policing quotas. In 2018 13 Prince George’s County police officers of color filed suit, accusing the department of discrimination and retaliation for reporting other officers’ bad behavior. WHEN WILL THE…
Find out more »Briefing Invite: Child Sexual Abuse – Preventable, Not Inevitable, with Federal Investment
Committee for Children, Futures Without Violence, Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, National Children’s Alliance & National Alliance to End Sexual Violence 385 Senate Russell Office Building Refreshments will be provided RSVP by January 26th Here Featured Presenters Include Moderator, Joan Duffell Executive Director, Committee for Children Deborah Chosewood Deputy Director, Prevention and Community Support Section Georgia Division of Family and Children Services Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau Director, Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse John’s…
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