Fighting for Fairness in America’s Justice System with Laura Coates
Air Dates: February 28-March 6, 2022 The line between what is right and what is just isn’t always clear. Laura Coates is a former federal prosecutor who describes how she reconciled ideas of justice, race, the role of law enforcement in our society, and her own role in the U.S. justice system. Laura Coates is a CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host and author of “Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s … Read More
Dead Man Walking: Life, Death and Justice with Sister Helen Prejean
Rebroadcast Dates: April 13-19, 2020 Original Air Dates: April 21-27, 2018 Since 1976, nearly 1,500 Americans have been executed in the name of justice. Sister Helen Prejean though, cautions about the human cost of the death penalty and the innocent victims wrongfully put to death. Sister Helen Prejean joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957, now known as the Congregation of St. Joseph, and received a B.A. … Read More
The Makings of Mass Incarceration in the United States with Elizabeth Hinton
Air Dates: March 9-15, 2020 While the United States contains less than five percent of the planet’s population, it has nearly one-quarter of the world’s prison population. Elizabeth Hinton traces the politics and policy decisions since President Lyndon’s Johnson’s War on Poverty that created the nation’s reliance on mass incarceration. Elizabeth Hinton is Professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research … Read More
Convicted and Condemned with Keesha Middlemass
Convicted and Condemned: The Politics of Prisoner Reentry with Dr. Keesha M. Middlemass, Howard University
Dr. Keesha Middlemass will discuss her award winning book, Convicted & Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry (NYU Press, 2017), which in 2018 won the W. E. B. Dubois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Her talk will focus on prisoner reentry from an interdisciplinary perspective by combining first-person narratives of men and women coming home alongside an analysis of public policies; this … Read More
Fall 2019 Event Series Announced
Pell Center has announced its event series for Fall 2019. Tickets to Pell Center events are free and will be available about two weeks prior to the event date. Please RSVP for each event on the Pell Center’s Eventbrite page and call 401-341-2927 or email [email protected] with questions. Scroll to the bottom of this page to sign up for our email list and stay informed about when tickets become available. All … Read More