Learn more about NACDL’s State Criminal Justice Network and Conference: https://www.nacdl.org/SCJN
2023 marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its extraordinary surge. To date over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system, and nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are currently incarcerated in our nation’s jails and prisons. This represents a 500 percent increase since 1973.
How did we get here? Many of the conditions that drove this exponential rise in incarceration persists, including the failed War on Drugs, racially biased policing, disproportionate pretrial practices and sentencing outcomes and the expanded use of lengthy sentences.
As advocates mark 50 years of mass incarceration, what is needed to meaningfully decarcerate our nation’s jails and prisons? Join us for this opening panel discussion, as we set the stage for the 22nd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, answering the question, where do we go from here?
Moderator: Nicole Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy, The Sentencing Project
Panelists: Khalil Cumberbatch, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice; Premal Dharia, Executive Director, Institute to End Mass Incarceration; and Cynthia Roseberry, Acting Director, ACLU Justice Division, American Civil Liberties Union.
Conference materials: https://www.nacdl.org/Content/SCJNCon...
Conference agenda: https://www.nacdl.org/Content/2023SCJ...