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.