New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Will Hold Briefing on Solitary Confinement of Juveniles

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Jul 07, 2014, 05:20 ET

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights:

WHAT: The NY SAC will examine whether solitary confinement of youths of color and the mentally ill results in the unequal treatment in the administration of justice of these groups under CRIPA.

WHEN: Thursday July 10, 2014
9:00 a.m.

WHERE: New York University Law School
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

WHO: Commissioner Anthony Annucci, New York State Department of Corrections
Angela Browne, Senior Fellow, Vera Institute of Justice
Hon. Judge Michael A. Corriero, Executive Director, New York Center for Juvenile Justice
Megan Crowe-Rothstein, Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project
Councilman Danny Dromm, NYC Council
Lisa Freeman, Director, Special Litigation and Law Reform Juvenile Rights Practice at Legal Aid Society of New York
Hon. Judge Bryanne Hamill, NYC Board of Corrections
Barbara Hamilton, Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Practice's Special Litigation Unit
Ian Kysel, Dash/Muse Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University
Dr. Bandy Lee, Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Yale University
Five Mualimm-Ak, Founder and Program Director, Incarcerated Nation
Karen Murtagh, Director, Prisoners Legal Services
Ismael Nazario, Case Manager, The Fortune Society
Scott Paltrowitz, Associate Director, Prison Visiting Project Correctional Association of New York
Jennifer Parish, Director, Criminal Justice Advocacy, Urban Justice Coalition
Alexander A. Reinert, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School
Norman Seabrook, NYC COBA President
Dr. Joseph Tomassone, Chief of Treatment Services, NYS Office of Children & Family Services
Dr. Homer Venters, Medical Director, Rikers Island Jail
Marybeth Zeman, Transitional Counselor, School Program for Incarcerated Youth Nassau County Jail

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with studying and advising the President and Congress on civil rights matters and issuing an annual federal civil rights enforcement report. For information about the reports and meetings of the Commission and its State Advisory Committees, please visit http://www.usccr.gov.

Media contact: Alexandra Korry
Chairperson, NY Advisory Committee
(212) 558-4370

SOURCE U.S. Commission on Civil Rights