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.
MommieActivist and Sons Radio Show
Mommie Activist and Sons Radio Show will feature on its SUNDAY EVENING WEIGH IN its first Political and Legislative TOWN HALL CALL IN to Discuss Bill H.R. 64 - Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2017 introduced by Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee D-TX. Listen and call in at 6:30 p.m. EST on March 5. www.BlogTalkRadio.com/mommieactivist at http://tobtr.com/s/9855275.
Find out more »First Annual DC Prisoner & Reentry Symposium: The State of Our Union
On Friday, March 10 from 9-5 p.m., the D.C. Corrections Information Council (CIC) and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) are convening the first annual D.C. Prisoner & Reentry Symposium on Friday, March 10, 2017, at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. REGISTRATION If you have not yet registered, please register by Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Once the event has reached capacity, later registrants will be placed on a waiting list, to be informed…
Find out more »Voices from Inside America’s Mass System of Punishment: The Freeing Power of Higher Education
CCF Executive Director Vivian D. Nixon delivers this year's prestigious Columbia University Community Scholars Lecture "Voices from Inside America's Mass System of Punishment: The Freeing Power of Higher Education" on March 7, 2017, 6:30 - 9 p.m. There is a free reception following the lecture for preregistered guests. Location: Columbia University, Low Library West 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue RSVP now!
Find out more »IMPACT PRESENTS: State of Senate Diversity
IMPACT is a project to help increase minority attainment of senior level positions in the U.S. Senate. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released a report in 2015 entitled Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff. When taking into account senior staff positions (Chiefs of Staff, Legislative Directors, Communications Directors), the report found extremely low numbers of minorities holding these positions. IMPACT-dc is hosting a panel discussion on this very important topic and the report's findings. It will be this Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.…
Find out more »UPDATE: RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 4 On the Cutting Edge of Justice: A Roundtable Discussion on Activism
NOTE: UDC David Clarke School of Law is closed due to the weather. The forum has been rescheduled to April 4. Please mark your calendars. On Tuesday, March 14, the DC Chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers will host "On the Cutting Edge of Justice: A Roundtable Discussion on Activism" at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law's Moot Court Room, from 5:00-7:30 pm. This event is endorsed by the Black Law Students Association, the DC…
Find out more »Community Policing and Engagement
Racial Justice Series: Community Policing & Engagement. At the event, police and criminal-justice experts will discuss the intersection of race and policing, national trends and initiatives, and local policing practices. Racial Justice Series: Community Policing & Engagement takes place on Thursday, March 16 from 6:30–8:30 pm at Hogan Lovells (555 13th Street NW). Register by clicking here or on the graphic below. Expert panel to include: Laurie Robinson (Co-chair of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing & Criminology professor at George Mason University Law…
Find out more »Civil Rights in the Trump Era: Lessons from History
How can a thorough understanding of the African-American-led freedom movement of the 1950s and 60s inform those looking to create a new sustaining civil rights movement to defend communities threatened by new federal and local policies? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, author of the seminal trilogy America in the King Years and a member of OSI-Baltimore's Advisory Board, discusses what defenders of democracy from America's past can teach today's activists about resisting threats to open society. Co-presented with the University…
Find out more »Critical Race Theory: Race and Justice at the Dawn of the Trump Era
This annual symposium will focus on the intersection of race and the criminal justice system and race and the role of lawyers in social movements. Two panels will consist of lawyers from all different types of field including criminal defense, prosecution, critical race theory and victims of police profiling or incarceration Tuesday, April 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. American University Washington College of Law 4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20016 Yuma Building - Terrace Level - Claudio Grossman Hall,…
Find out more »A New Frame for Justice: Bringing Girls into Focus
Vera’s new speaker series—Getting to Zero: Shutting Down Girls’ Pathways into Incarceration Speaker Series—brings together local and national experts to discuss common paths that lead girls and transgender/ gender-nonconforming (GNC) youth into the juvenile justice system—including getting arrested while in the child welfare system, family conflict or violence, and school discipline/ expulsion. Each speaker series event coincides with a convening of Vera’s multi-agency Task Force on Ending Girls’ Incarceration in New York City. On April 3, the first installment of this series…
Find out more »On the Cutting Edge of Justice: A Roundtable Discussion on Activism
On April 4, the DC Chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers will host "On the Cutting Edge of Justice: A Roundtable Discussion on Activism" at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law's Moot Court Room, from 5:00-7:30 pm. This event is endorsed by the Black Law Students Association, the DC National Lawyers Guild, and Law for Black Lives-DC.
Find out more »2017 LEAD Conference (Leadership. Evidence. Analysis. Debate.): Moving from Research to Policy & Practice to Improve the Lives of Youth
The 2017 LEAD Conference sponsored by Georgetown University, the McCourt School of Public Policy, and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) is an annual event that brings together experts and key stakeholders to examine a particular policy challenge and discuss potential solutions. This year's program coincides with CJJR's 10-year anniversary and will explore current research in child-serving fields and how best to adapt that research into sound policies and practices. Early discounted registration will open later this fall. Questions to Rachael Ward…
Find out more »Fwd: CJCC 2017 Spring Public Meeting – Shining Light on an Emerging Threat: Synthetic Opiates in the District
The CJCC cordially invites you to attend our Annual Spring Public Meeting on the evening of Thursday April 6, 2017 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at Shiloh Baptist Church (1510 9th Street NW). The focus of our public meeting will be the growing threat to District communities posed by synthetic opiates. Synthetic opiate-related overdoses and deaths are on the rise, reaching epidemic proportions across the United States. These highly addictive and tightly-regulated substances are increasingly being manufactured illicitly, and are relatively easy to…
Find out more »How States Are Leading the Charge on Criminal Justice and Second Chance Policies
This April, the Center for American Progress joins our justice reform partners in commemorating Second Chance Month, during which advocates and formerly incarcerated individuals will call on progressive and conservative lawmakers alike to implement reforms to the U.S. criminal justice system to provide better and fairer rehabilitation, remove barriers to re-entry, and ensure that individuals are able to move on with their lives with a fair shot to make a decent living. States have been leading the charge on reforms,…
Find out more »Women’s Reentry Symposium
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency hosts its WOmen's Reentry Symposium including plenary sessions and activities Saturday, April 22, at Temple of Praise Church, 700 Southern Avenue, SE, from 7:30 am to 3 p.m.
Find out more »Livestream: Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Reduce Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration
In-person attendance for this event is completely sold out, so we invite you to watch the livestream and join the conversation on Twitter @verainstitute using #AccountForJustice This forum will bring together a range of leaders in the criminal justice field to talk about strategies that can reduce both violence and mass incarceration. The day’s dynamic conversations and interviews will be organized around four key principles outlined in a recent Common Justice report—exploring responses to violence that are centered on survivors, based in accountability, driven by…
Find out more »Justice, Work and Opportunity
Holding a job is crucial for ex-offenders seeking to reintegrate into society. Yet, lawmakers have too often erected barriers for those most in need of a job in the interest of protecting a citizenry nervous about their reappearance in society. This despite employment representing one of the biggest factors for lowering recidivism. Justice for Work is a coalition of organizations spanning the ideological spectrum which seeks to respond to proposals for mandatory, government-run background checks and fingerprint collection in private…
Find out more »Justice, Work and Opportunity
Holding a job is crucial for ex-offenders seeking to reintegrate into society. Yet, lawmakers have too often erected barriers for those most in need of a job in the interest of protecting a citizenry nervous about their reappearance in society. This despite employment representing one of the biggest factors for lowering recidivism. Justice for Work is a coalition of organizations spanning the ideological spectrum which seeks to respond to proposals for mandatory, government-run background checks and fingerprint collection in private…
Find out more »Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
On Tuesday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m., James Forman will have a book signing at Busboys & Poets 14th and V location, highlighting his book, "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America." The signing will also feature at discussion starting at 6:30 p.m.
Find out more »Brave New Films Screening of ‘5 to Life’
You are invited to attend the first film screening of "5 to Life," a Brave New Films production, followed by a panel discussion about compassionate release for elderly and ill federal prisoners, why so few prisoners receive it, and what Congress can do about it. The event is on April 19 at 2:30 p.m. in the Capitol Visitors Center. Full details are below. Panelists will include Mary Price, General Counsel with FAMM, and Jack Donson, a former Bureau of Prisons…
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