Ending the School to Prison Pipeline: Dismantling Juvenile Prison
Friday, February 26, 2016
12:30 p.m EDT
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Mishi Faruqee
moderated by Law@theMargins Editor-in-Chief Chaumtoli Huq
Americans are increasingly challenging the hypocrisy that the world’s leading democracy also has the largest percentage of its own citizens behind bars. Research has shown that the path to incarceration for many is institutional and set early on in their educational lives. How can we put an end to the school to prison pipeline that has been in existence for more than an generation? Maybe we begin to dismantle it by questioning the very need for juvenile prisons.
Journalist Nell Bernstein and Policy Advocate Mishi Farquee will help us tackle this and other issues surrounding youth and criminal justice reform on Friday, February 26 at 12:30 p.m..
Bernstein’a book Burning Down the House frames the conversation around juvenile prison, and policy efforts to end youth incarceration and to explore community based alternative.
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Nell Bernstein
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| Nell Bernstein is an author and journalist. Burning Down the House, Nell Bernstein’s latest book, is a clarion call to shut down our nation’s brutal and counterproductive juvenile prisons and bring our children home. She is a former Soros Justice Media Fellow in New York, and winner of a White House Champion of Change award. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Salon, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, among other publications. |
| Mishi Faruqee is the National Field Director of the Youth First Initiative, a campaign to end incarceration of young people in youth prisons and invest community-based alternatives to incarceration. Prior to joining Youth First, Mishi worked at the national ACLU as the Juvenile Justice Policy Strategist. Mishi also worked at ACLU of Washington where she lead a campaign to end the death penalty in Washington State. Mishi has served as the Director of Youth Justice Programs at the Children’s Defense Fund-NY, as Senior Policy Advisor to the Commissioner at the New York City Department of Probation, and as the Director of the Juvenile Justice Project at the Correctional Association of New York, where she coordinated the New York Juvenile Justice Coalition. Mishi received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and holds graduate degrees from Oxford University and the New School for Social Research. |
