Prisons, Police, Race, and the War on Drugs

Hosted by the NYU Wagner Criminal Justice Student Group, the Students of African Descent Alliance, and the Correctional Association of NY. Join leading academicians, activists, political figures and lawyers in a discussion on a critical, oft neglected, public policy issue of the day: how police, prosecutorial and prison related practices lead to the dramatically disproportionate confinement of poor people of color. With: - Assemblymember Jeffrion L. Aubry, Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction. - Kamau Karl Franklin, Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-chair of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. - Robert Gangi, Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York. - Dennis Smith, Associate Professor of Public Policy at NYU Wagner. Moderated by: Mary Porter, Lecturer in Public Administration, Assistant Dean at NYU Wagner and former prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. For more information, see http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/prisons.php [5].