Agenda
8:30 AM - 9:10 AM Registration & Light Breakfast
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM - Welcome - Ashley Biden (Delaware Center for Justice)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM - Solitary Confinement Settlement Briefing - Elizabeth Booth (Community Legal Aid Society) & Bureau Chief Christopher Klein (Delaware Department of Correction Bureau of Prisons)
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM - Evelyn Litwok
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM - BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM - Breakout Sessions-Round 1 - Choose:
Economic Harm - Saad Soliman,(US Probation, District of Delaware)
Continuity of Care - April Lyons (Westside Family Healthcare)
Kids in the Adult System - Monika Germono (Delaware Office of Defense Services)
11:40AM - 12:20 PM - Breakout Sessions - Round 2 - Choose:
Economic Harm - Saad Soliman (US Probation, District of Delaware)
Continuity of Care - April Lyons (Westside Family Healthcare)
Kids in the Adult System - Monika Germono (Delaware Office of Defense Services)
12:20PM - 1:20 PM - Lunch & Networking
1:20 PM - 2:10PM - A Systems Approach to Reducing the Use of Segregation/Restricted Housing In Confinement - Dr. Angela Browne
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM - Visioning Session - What should our criminal justice system look like?
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM - Closing and Next Steps - Eugene Young (Delaware Center for Justice)
Contact
Kirstin Cornnell, Director of OperationsDelaware Center for Justice
302-658-7174 ext. 25
kcornnell@dcjustice.org
Join the Delaware Center for our annual conference—this year addressing the pains of imprisonment in the 21st century. What does a justice system that does no physical or emotional harm to its participants look like, and how do we get there?
$10 event registration includes breakfast and lunch.
Dr. Angela Browne - Dr. Browne is a specialist in policy research, use of incarceration, and strategic consulting and technical assistance. She is known for her collaboration skills and expertise on violence perpetration, lethal violence, long-term effects of trauma, use of segregation/restrictive housing in U.S. prisons, and positive and effective alternatives to segregation. She has worked with solitary confinement, protective custody, self-harm, and acute incidents in confinement settings since 1989, and has consulted to maximum-security prisons, juvenile justice agencies, and city, state, and regional entities in the U.S., Russia, and Greece. Angela founded the Vera Institute’s ‘Segregation Reduction Project’ in January 2010 and has led comprehensive segregation assessments of the use of segregation/restrictive housing in 37 state prison facilities across six U.S. states Departments of Corrections. Recommendations were provided for reducing the use of segregation and enhancing responses to vulnerable and challenging populations –– including mentally ill and other vulnerable prisoners, frequent violators, and gang members –– and agencies were assisted as they implemented change.
Evelyn Litwok - When Evie Litwok was 60 years old, she was convicted of tax evasion and sent to a Federal women’s prison. Being an "out" lesbian in the early 1990s made her experience of incarceration particularly complicated - and difficult. A consultant, writer, speaker, and social activist, Litwok began collecting the stories of others while in prison, a process she has continued through her Witness to Mass Incarceration project (http://witnesstomassincarceration.org/). She serves on the Criminal Justice LGBT Working Group and is an active member of NYC Jail Action Committee, dedicated to eliminating solitary confinement in New York City jails.
Additional Speakers Include:
- Ashley Biden, MSW, Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice
- Elizabeth Booth, Staff Attorney at Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
- Bureau Chief Christopher Klein, Delaware Department of Correction Bureau of Prisons
- Saad Soliman, Reentry & Training Specialist, US Probation Office, District of Delaware)
- April Lyons, Director of External Affairs at Westside Family Healthcare
- Monika Germono, Assistant Public Defender at the Delaware Office of Defense Services
- Eugene Young, Advocacy Director at the Delaware Center for Justice