Join the conversation on Twitter #MJCDeincarcerate Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center De-incarceration through Civil Rights Litigation Conference Thursday, April 14, 2016 AGENDA 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Kellogg School of Management, 340 East Superior Street, Rm. 150 9:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks: Kellogg School of Management, 340 East Superior Street, Rm. 147 Locke E. Bowman, Executive Director Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center Chicago, New Orleans, Mississippi and St. Louis 9:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Mass Imprisonment: Defining the Problem and Identifying Solutions Sheila A. Bedi Clinical Associate Professor of Law Panel...Will Harrell ACLU Southern Regional Policy Counsel Candice Jones, Director Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice Marc Levin, Policy Director Texas Public Policy Foundation, Right on Crime David Muhammad Independent Federal Court Monitor Liz Ryan, President & CEO Youth First! Initiative Jason Ziedenberg, Director of Policy and Research The Justice Policy Institute
10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Litigating Race Thursday s Agenda Cont d Vanessa del Valle, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. LUNCH Panel...Andrea Armstrong, Associate Professor of Law Loyola University-New Orleans College of Law Jim Craig, Co-Director Winsome Gayle, Special Litigation Counsel for Juvenile Rights, U.S. Department of Justice David Rudovsky, Senior Fellow University of Pennsylvania Law School Emily Washington, Staff Attorney 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Bringing them Home After the Scandal John Conroy, Senior Investigator Panel...Will Harrell ACLU Southern Regional Policy Counsel Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel Juvenile Law Center Joey Mogul, Partner People s Law Office Matthew Segal, Legal Director ACLU of Massachusetts Theo Shaw, Jena 6 Defendant, now 1 st year law student & Gates Public Service Law Scholar, Univ. of WA Sch. of Law
Thursday s Agenda Cont d Break 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Access to Counsel as a De-incarceration Strategy Katie Schwartzmann, Co-Director Panel...Michael Bien, Managing Partner Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld, LLP Derwyn Bunton, Chief District Defender Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office Sarah Geraghty, Managing Attorney Southern Center for Human Rights Steve Hanlon, General Counsel National Association for Public Defense Cliff Johnson, Director Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, MS David Muhammad Independent Federal Court Monitor
Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center De-incarceration through Civil Rights Litigation Conferene Friday, April 15, 2016 AGENDA 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Kellogg School of Management, 340 East Superior Street, Rm. 150 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Police Accountability and De-incarceration Kellogg School of Management, 340 East Superior Street, Rm. 147 Emily Washington, Attorney Panel...Locke E. Bowman, Executive Director Jon Loevy, Partner Loevy & Loevy Sunita Patel, Practitioner-in-Residence Washington College of Law Stephen Rushin, Professor University of Alabama School of Law G. Flint Taylor, Founding Partner People s Law Office
Friday s Agenda Cont d 10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Shutting the Revolving Door to Prison: Fees, Fines and other Collateral Consequences Jake Howard, Attorney Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, MS Panel...Miriam Aukerman, Staff Attorney ACLU of Michigan Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Senior Counsel Brennan Center for Justice at NUSL Eric Foley, Attorney Sarah Geraghty, Managing Attorney Southern Center for Human Rights Alec Karakatsanis, Co-Founder Equal Justice Under Law Paul Wright, Founder and Executive Director Human Rights Defense Center 12:00 p.m. 1:45 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Reginald Dwayne Betts LUNCH Juvenile Justice Reform Advocate and Award-Winning Author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison ***Keynote Address will begin at 12:30 p.m. ***
Friday s Agenda Cont d 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Solitary Confinement Reform and Conditions Crisis as Leverage to De-populate David M. Shapiro, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Panel...Andrea Armstrong, Associate Professor of Law Loyola University-New Orleans Amy Fettig, Senior Staff Counsel ACLU National Prison Project Jane Kahn, Of Counsel Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP Alan Mills, Executive Director Uptown People s Law Center Jody Owens, II, Director and Managing Attorney Southern Poverty Law Center Katie Schwartzmann, Co-Director