The Texas Criminal Justice System: A Den of Inequity

Join us for a virtual overview of mass incarceration and racial disparities in Texas, highlighting sentencing policies, pretrial injustices, and conditions inside Texas’s prisons and jails, including deaths in custody, suicide, violence and abuse, solitary confinement, labor practices, and efforts to challenge this brutal system.

Speaker:
Michele Deitch, Director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab; Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs/UT School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin; daughter of CSI Professor Emerita Irene Deitch.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/csimicheled

For more information, please contact John.Arena@csi.cuny.edu.

This event is organized by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology in partnership with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Department of Political Science & Global Affairs; the Legal Studies Institute; and the Department of Social Work.