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The Prison Business: Who Pays? Who Profits?
Date:
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Time:
5:30 PM
-
7:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Virginia
Location Details:
Delancey Street Foundation
600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
seven blocks south of the Embarcadero BART station
Prison Forums presents the first of a series
The Prison Business: Who Pays? Who Profits?
Thursday, March 14th
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Delancey Street Foundation
600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
seven blocks south of the Embarcadero BART station
a panel presentation followed by discussion moderator:
John Irwin - ex-convict, author, and activist panelists:
" James Austin: the national prison business picture
James Austin is the director of the Institute on Crime, Justice, and
Corrections at theGeorge Washington University in Washington, D.C. Before
joining GWU, he was the Executive Vice President of the National Council on
Crime and Delinquency for 20 years. He began his career in corrections in
1970 as a correctional sociologist at Joliet and Stateville prisons in
Illinois. He has more than 25 years of experience in criminal justice
planning and research. He serves, or has recently served, as director for
several U.S. Department of Justice funded research and evaluation programs.
Some of his most recent studies include national evaluations of Three
Strikes and Your Out laws, privatization of prisons, juveniles in adult
corrections, and prison classification systems. He also conducted
evaluations of several major local jail systems (Seattle, New York City, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and D.C.). He directed studies in 25 states
to develop correctional populations projections based on current and
proposed sentencing reforms.
" Ruthie Gilmore: impact of the Prison Industrial Complex on rural communities
Born in 1950, Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a life-long activist for social
justice. She has been doing frontline anti-racist work since age ten when
she was sent to desegregate a school on her own. In the past decade Gilmore
has specialized in helping form grassroots organizations that link issues of
prison expansion, criminalization, racism, and sexism with the wide and deep
consequences of governmental and capital abandonment that has left enormous
numbers of people stuck in impoverished urban and rural communities. She has
written numerous articles, and a forthcoming book (Golden Gulag, University
of California Press) about the political economy of prison expansion in
urban and rural context, and the cultures of opposition of those who are
fighting prison growth. Organizational affiliations include: Critical
Resistance, California Prison Moratorium Project, Families Against
California's Three Strikes, California Prison Focus, Mothers Reclaiming Our
Children, the Union of Radical Political Economists, and the National
Writers' Union. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Geography at U.C.
Berkeley.
" Deborah Vargas: the power of prison guards' unions
Currently, Deborah Vargas works with the Justice Policy Institute of the
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice as a researcher and policy analyst.
She holds two bachelors degrees, one in Psychology (emphasis on adolescent
psychology) and one in Social Science, with a minor in Criminal Justice. She
is also a graduate student in Public Administration at San Francisco State
University, concentrating on criminal justice administration. She recently
completed a study on the power of the California Correctional Peace Officers
Association in her capacity as a researcher and policy analyst with the
Justice Policy Institute.
Hosted by Delancey Street Foundation; Presented by the Crimiinal Justice
Consortium, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Critical
Resistance, and the Smart on Crime Coalition
For more information contact Virginia at: 415/753-6602 or
virgie@worldnet.att.net
consider having dinner at the Delancey Street Restaurant after the forum
Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway, Suite 1400
Oakland, ca 94612
Phone: (510)444-0484
Fax: (510)444-2177
rose@criticalresistance.org
crnational@criticalresistance.org
Added to the calendar on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:24AM
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