Join the Human Rights Lab and its partners as panelists reflect on the impact of COVID-19 behind bars and contemporary struggles to end death by incarceration, a term that has taken on new meaning in the context of the pandemic. This dialogue builds on the anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom and is part of the American Studies Association's new series of Freedom Courses.
Panelists:
Eric Blackmon, Paralegal, MacArthur Justice Center and Community Educator-in-Residence, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab
Kathy Boudin, Co-Director, Center for Justice, Columbia University
Victoria Law, freelance journalist, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Reuben Miller, Assistant Professor, Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Beth Richie, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation
Moderators:
Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab, University of Chicago
Erica Meiners, Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, author of The Feminist and the Sex Offender
Co-presented with the Center for Identity + Inclusion (CI+I), Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture (CSRPC), the Office of Vice Provost Melissa Gilliam, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in the Biological Sciences Division, the University Community Service Center (UCSC)