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Howe Lecture: Criminal Justice Reform: Where Are We Now? What Comes Next?
Journalist Jesse Wegman leads a panel to examine criminal justice reform. Plus a quilt show on Black Lives Matter: A Journey Toward Justice
Sunday, March 20, 2016, 3 – 5 pm
First Parish in Lexington
7 Harrington Rd.
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The Howe Lecture “Criminal Justice Reform: Where are we now? What Comes Next?”
will be held at First Parish Lexington on March 20 at 3 pm. Journalist Jesse Wegman, on
the editorial board of the New York Times, will lead a distinguished panel to examine the
current broken justice system and focus on necessary changes. Panelists include the
following: State Senator Will Brownsberger, Senate chair of the Joint Committee on the
Judiciary; Professor Margaret Burnham, founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative
Justice Project at Northeastern School of Law; Attorney Adam J. Foss, Assistant District
Attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office;
Attorney Rahsaan D. Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil
Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Vincent Schiraldi, Director of the Program on
Criminal Justice Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Accompanying the forum will be an exhibit of small quilts entitled “Black Lives Matter: A Journey Toward Justice.”
A reception will follow. The Elizabeth Howe Lecture is free; parking is available in the First Parish Lot (enter off Harrington Road). First Parish is handicapped accessible. Cosponsored by the Mass Incarceration Working Group of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington.
