Post Tagged with: "mass incarceration"

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is offering a panel discussion on prison re-entry the challenges of life after incarceration on Thursday, Oct. 8, from 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. in Bentley Hall 240. “The growth of incarceration in the United States has led to a crisis in the criminal justice […]

Dr. Paul Hirschfield, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, visits Ohio University on Thursday, March 19, at noon in Bentley 124 for a public lecture on adolescence, school, and the criminal justice system. The talk is on “Decriminalizing Schools? Recent Reforms in School Discipline and Policing.” Hirschfield presents on theories […]

Representatives from the Ohio Innocence Project, one of the most successful organizations in the nation for exonerating innocent prisoners, will speak in Walter Rotunda on Feb. 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. for a talk on “The Ohio Innocence Project: From Death Row to Freedom.” Director and Co-founder Mark Godsey […]

Sheila Bedi, clinical associate professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, brought a simple message to Ohio University last Thursday evening — end the current prison system and mass incarceration. During her Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Week talk titled “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights […]

By Larry Hayman Ohio University Pre-Law Specialist, Center for Law, Justice & Culture As Ohio begins a new year, its prison population again is approaching record levels. Moreover, Ohio’s prison population is expected to hit 52,169 inmates this year. That’s more than double the number of incarcerated Ohioans from 25 years […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture continues the “Critical Resistance to Mass Incarceration” series with a panel discussion on the challenges of life after incarceration on Tuesday, Oct. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Baker 231 . “The growth of incarceration in the United States has led to a […]

By Larry Hayman Ohio University Pre-Law Specialist, Center for Law, Justice & Culture As the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes this week, it does so under a staggering statistic. Though the United States accounts for only 5 percent of the world’s population, that nation accounts for over 25 percent of the […]