Leaders: Jason Starr, Panel Moderator, Nassau County Chapter Director, NYCLU
Co-sponsored by the Social Justice Committee and Shelter Rock Forum
FILM: “Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard”
TORTURE. It’s not just something that happened at Abu Ghraib or in secret prison sites tucked away in distant countries. It’s happening now. It’s happening in prisons on U.S. soil. Prolonged solitary confinement is torture in your back yard. Learn why this ishappening. Learn what you can do to stop this.
PANELISTS:
Laura Markle Downton, M.Div.
Director of U.S. Prisons Policy & Program, National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Five Mualimm-Ak
Civil Rights Advocate/Organizer, End the New Jim Crow
Tyrell Muhammad
Correctional Association of New York
Megan Crowe-Rothstein
Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project
Nathan Vogel
Legislative Counsel, NY Civil Liberties Union
Panel Moderator:
Jason Starr
Nassau County Chapter Director, NYCLU
*Invited
