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A panel discussion with Dean Strang (Loyola University of Chicago Law School), Cecelia Klingele (University of Wisconsin Law School), Fr. Javier del Castillo (Prelature of Opus Dei), Kevin Carr (Wisconsin Department of Corrections), and moderated by Thomas Donnelly (Circuit Court of Cook County) held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 10, 2022.
The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform the many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system. This panel serves as the keynote event for the colloquium.
More info here: lumenchristi.org/event/2022/02/catholic-perspectives-on-criminal-justice-reform-a-scholarly-colloquium
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A panel discussion with Dean Strang (Loyola University of Chicago Law School), Cecelia Klingele (University of Wisconsin Law School), Fr. Javier del Castillo (Prelature of Opus Dei), Kevin Carr (Wisconsin Department of Corrections), and moderated by Thomas Donnelly (Circuit Court of Cook County) held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 10, 2022.
The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform the many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system. This panel serves as the keynote event for the colloquium.
More info here: lumenchristi.org/event/2022/02/catholic-perspectives-on-criminal-justice-reform-a-scholarly-colloquium
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![Conversation on The Rage of Innocence
A discussion of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth with author and Professor Kris Henning in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking Up Our Own, Professor James Forman, Jr. Presented by the Loyola University Chicago Law School and the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network.
In January 2019, Pope Francis told the detainees at a Panamanian youth prison: “You are part of [God’s] family; you have a lot to share with others.” A fruitful society, he said, “is able to generate processes of inclusion and integration, of caring and trying to create opportunities and alternatives that can offer new possibilities to the young, to build a future through community, education and employment. Such a community is healthy.” Unfortunately, our communities fail to offer a healthy, inclusive, and caring environment for court-involved youth particularly youth of color as Professor Kris Henning dramatically reveals.
In a searing and clear indictment of the juvenile and criminal legal system, Kris Henning draws on her 25 years of representing young people accused of crimes to show the day-to-day brutalities endured by Black youth growing up under constant surveillance and persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse by police. Join Profs. Henning and Forman in a discussion of her critical and timely new book.
More info: https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/10/rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth
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