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Community Corner

Healing A Culture of Torture

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

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