Archive: Prisons Justice Initiative

• How COVID-19 and Police Brutality Protests Could Change America’s Criminal Justice System (Video)

  The crises of America’s broken criminal justice system and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic were on the minds of a distinguished panel during “Crises of the Common Good and Public Health,” a June 5 forum co-sponsored by the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.

  Category: Events Tags: COVID-19, Criminal Justice, Events, Mass Incarceration, Prisons Justice Initiative, Racial Justice

• Scholars, Formerly Incarcerated Citizens Discuss Reforming Prison Labor

  Chaired by Marc Howard, Professor of Government and Law, this timely gathering touched upon an enormous segment of the workforce whom are largely hidden from public view. Besides cleaning, cooking, and doing the laundry within prisons themselves, many are leased out to state owned or private companies where they may be manufacturing a highly diverse array of products including clothing, processed foods, office supplies, license plates, and even American flags, often for less than $2 per day. During the recent California wildfires, as many as forty percent of the firefighters that were drafted in to beat back the flames would have listed a prison as their present residence.

  Category: Events Tags: ACLU, Arthur Rizer, Ban the Box, Chandra Bozelko, David Fathi, Events, Marc Howard, Mass Incarceration, Patrick Dixon, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Labor, Prisons Justice Initiative, R Street Initiative, Returning Citizens, Sekwan Merritt