Law Symposium Explores Incarceration Effects

More than 150 people gathered at the University of La Verne College of Law to hear about issues surrounding incarceration during the Law Review Symposium on April 8.

The symposium, The Realities of Mass Incarceration in America Today, featured keynote speaker, Bryan A. Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and Professor at the New York University School of Law. Mr. Stevenson has represented capital defendants and death row inmates since 1985, and is a nationally-acclaimed expert on criminal justice, capital punishment, and civil rights issues.  He is the author of the bestselling book Just Mercy:  A Story of Justice and Redemption.

The symposium panels brought together scholars and practitioners to discuss society’s approach to and use of incarceration today. Panels explored the cradle-to-prison pipeline, how incarceration relates to and affects racial and ethnic minorities, and issues of gender in the criminal justice and prison systems.

Guests engaged in a Q&A dialogue with panelists at the conclusion of panel presentations and received USB devices with materials relevant to each presentation.