Time

Event

Main Speaker

Brief Greetings

Venue

3:00pm

Registration

Networking

Boston Univ.  Law School Auditorium

5:00pm-6:00pm

Greetings and Networking

BUL Auditorium

6:00pm-9:00pm

Opening  Program

Michelle Alexander, Esq Author: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Hon. Mel King,

Dr. Gregg Groover: President, BMA

Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore:  Dean, Boston Univ. Sch. of Theology  

Dr. Fred Allen: Director, Strengthening The Black Church for the 21^st Century.

Dr. Linda Daniels:

Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Doctoral Forensic Psychology Concentration Program.

Dr. Walters Fluker: Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership and the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project. Boston University.

Mr. Michael Curry, Esq.

President NAACP/Boston

BUL

Auditorium

Date  & Time

Topics/Event

Moderator

/Presenter

Panelists

Venue/Room

7:30am-8:30am

Breakfast,

Registration,

Meet and Greet

Boston Univ.  Law Auditorium 

 8:30am-9:00am

Welcome/Announcement  

BULA

9:00am-9:40am

A  Strategic Presentation

The  State of Criminal Justice in  America Today and

Mass Incarceration

Dr.  Larry Siegel:

Expertise

Delinquency, criminology, & corrections.

BULA

9:40am-9:45am

Break

Break

Break

9:45am-10:50am

A Strategic Discussion

Alternatives to  Incarceration 

Judge Arthur Burnett, Sr.,  

 Senior Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, National Executive Director, National

African American Drug Policy Coalition,

BULA

10:50am-11:00am

Break

Break

Break

11am-12:30pm

A Strategic Discussion

Sentencing Legislation, Crime and Prison Reform-Ending the Shackling of Women in Labor and Childbirth

Stephanie Soriano-Mills, Esq.

Tatum Pritchard, Esq., Prisoners Legal Service,

Gavi Wolf, ACLU

Jack Cole, Lt.

Retired State Police Lieutenant: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

BULA

12:30pm -1:15pm

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

TBA

1:15pm-2:50pm

 Workshop

Incarceration without Walls: Children of Incarcerated Parents

Dr. Frank Afflitto:

Bay State College,

Support for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Dr. Fran Roznowski: Cambridge Public School District,

Dr. Jill D’Angelo: Buffalo State University

Nixandra McGuffie:

Allegra Horn:

Tufts University

BULA

Workshop

Reentry, Financial Stability and Recovery for former prisoners

Dr. William Tita: Prof., College of Business, Northeastern Univ.,

Founding member of the World Chamber Network

Mr. Daniel Cordon: Director of Transitional Employment for the nonprofit Haley House Bakery Café

Mr. Maurice Alves: Mature Workers Program: Urban League

Mr. Fred Smith: Director of Program Development, St. Francis House, Inc.

Law School Room: 570

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Faith-based reentry program development and reintegration of former prisoners 

Dr. Harold Trulear,

Prof.,  Howard Univ., and National Director of Healing Communities Prison Ministry and Prisoner Reentry  Project of the Philadelphia Leadership Foundation

Min. Randy Muhammad:  The Nation of Islam’s Muhammad Mosque #11/Boston

School of Theology: Room B: 19

Workshop/Panel Discussion 

Rape, Torture and Death in U.S. Prisons: The Untold Stories

Cynthia Totten, Esq.:

Just Detention International

Dr. Stuart Grassian: Psychiatrist, Harvard Medical Sch. and Author: Effects of Solitary Confinement

Elizabeth D. Matos, Esq. Staff Attorney at Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts,

Heather Rice, Esq.

Director of U.S. Prisons Policy & Program

National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Law School: Room 620

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Restorative  Justice and Forgiveness:  Alternatives to Retributive Justice and Sentencing

Dr. Rodney Petersen: Director, Boston  Theological Institute

Tom Porter, Esq.:

Linda  Jackson:

School of Theology:

 Room

2:50pm-3:00pm

Break

3pm-4:15pm

Workshop

Post-Prison Life and Self-Care: Learning  from those who have succeeded

Dr. Earle Williams: Forensic Clinical Psychologist

Former prisoner: Walpole/Cedar Junction

Dr. Linda Daniels: Clinical psychologist, faculty member/ Director of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Doctoral Forensic Psychology Concentration Program  

Min. Mark Muhammad: The Nation of Islam: Muhammad Mosque #11.

Law School: Room 570

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Rehabilitation in Prison and Reintegration in the Community: The challenges to Survive

Bro. Leroy Muhammad Boston Medical Center (BMC)

for the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program (VIAP).

Mr. Fred Smith: Director of Program Development, St. Francis House, Inc.

Law School Room: 620

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Creating Revenue: Social Entrepreneurship and Community Reentry Program

Danny Cordon Director of Transitional Employment for the non-profit Haley House Bakery Café

Mrs. Mattie Deed:

Career Specialist,

Workforce Development Professional: Roxbury Resource Center.

Law School Room: 520

Strategic Workshop for Faith-based Groups

Mobilizing  Congregations to Advocacy

Dr. Harold Trulear:

Prof., Howard Univ., and National Director of Healing Communities Prison Ministry and Prison Reentry  Project of the Philadelphia Leadership Foundation

BULA

4:15pm- 4:25pm

Break

4:25pm-6:00pm

 Workshop/Panel Discussion

Women in Transition, Mental Health: Reentry, Recovery from Prison

Ms. Linda Jackson: Founder/Exc. Director of Transitional Program for Women

Rev. Clovis Turner: Dorchester Bay

Dr. Linda Daniels:

Cynthia Totten, Esq.:

Just Detention International

School of Theology Room: B19

Workshop

Men in Transition, mental Health: Reentry and Recovery from Prison

Dalton Skerrit:

Men’s Health Program Manager,

Whittier Post- Prison Release Program

Law School Room: 620

Workshop/Panel Discussion

The Expansion of Prisons and the Prison Industrial Complex

Drew  Kukorowski, Esq.:

Lois Ahrens: Director, Real Cost of Prisons Project

Mr. Arnie Alpert: Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee since 1981

Mr. Harold Adams: Founder, The Committee of Friends and Relatives of Prisoners

Peter Wagner: Director, Prison Policy Initiative

Law School Room: 520

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Prison Reform Strategies Development: Grassroots power development towards sentencing reform

Horace Small: Exc. Director, Union of Minority Neighborhoods

Steve O’Neill

EPOCA

Alejandra St. Guillen: Exc. Director, Latino Civic Education Initiative

Hakim Cunningham: Boston Workers’ Alliance

Law School Room: 570

Workshop

Law Enforcement, Policing and the War on Drugs

Jack A. Cole

Retired State Police Lieutenant – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Judge Arthur L. Burnett Sr.,

National Executive Director: National African American Drug Policy Coalition

Ms. Joanne Naughton,

Attorney and retired NYPD Lieutenant, served undercover in narcotics

Mr. Sean Dunagan, Former Senior Intelligence Research Specialist U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

BULA

6:00pm-7:00pm

Break

7:00pm to 9:30pm

Freedom Night &

Awards

Master of Ceremony:

Rahsaan Hall, Esq.:

Deputy Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Main Speaker:

Dr. Peniel Joseph: Prof. of History & Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts University

Boston University  Law Sch. Auditorium

Date &Time

Topics

Moderator/

Presenter

Panelists

 Venue

7:30am-8:15am

Breakfast

Registration

Meet and Greet

Boston Univ. Law School Auditorium

8:15am-8:45pm

Greetings/

Announcements

BULA

8:45am-9:15am

Mass Incarceration, & Economic Inequality in America

Dr. Bruce Western Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

BULA

9:15am to 9:45am

Race, Crime & Criminalization in the American Criminal Justice System.

Dr. Ward Churchill:

American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007.

BULA

9:45am to 10:15am

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Judge Arthur Burnett, Sr.,  Senior Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, National Executive Director, National

African American Drug Policy Coalition,

Dr. Bruce Western

 Dr. Ward Churchill

BULA

10:15am-10:25am

Break

Break

Break

10:25am-12:00pm

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Effective Reintegration from Prison: Design, Development, and Sustainability: A Conversation

Lyn Levy: Founder and Director, SPAN, Inc.

Wilbur Brown

Ms. Charmane Higgins,

Executive Director

STRIVE/Boston

Mrs. Mattie Deed:

Career Specialist,

Workforce Development Professional (1991 - Present) 

Law School Room: 520

Workshop/Panel

Discussion

The Role of Religion in Reducing Mass Incarceration: Prison Ministry Development and Sustainability

Rev. William Dickerson: Pastor, Greater Love Tabernacle

Min. Don Muhammad:

The Nation of Islam

Rev. Clovis Turner:

Dr. Fred Allen: Director, Strengthening the Black Church for the 21^st Century

Rev. Timothy Allen: Pastor,  Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, and Juvenile Parole Officer

The Most Rev. Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC

BULA

Workshop and Panel discussion

Literacy and Education in Prisons and Jails

Dr. Steven Spitzer,

Professor of Sociology,

Suffolk Univ., President, Jericho Circle Project, Inc.

Prof. Kristin Bumiller:

Department of Political Science,

Amherst College

Jean Trounstine: Prof., Middlesex Comm. College

Mr. Rob Wocjkik:

Dr. Jenifer D. Drew Director of the Boston University Prison Program

Law School Room: 570

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Job Creation, CORI & Economic Mobility:  Emphasis on Sustainable Reintegration and Reentry

Hakim Cunningham:

Boston Workers’ Alliance

Mr. Daniel Cordon

Mr. Gary Little

Span, Inc.

Mr. True-See Allah: The Nation of Islam: Muhammad Mosque #11

Law School Room: 620

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Political  Prisoners and Rights

Kazi Touri

Pam Africa:

Dr. Ward Churchill:

Ray Levasseur:

Jihad Abdul Mumit:

School of Theology Room: B19

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Phobias and Taboos around Mental Health affecting men of color and those in Transition: A Resource Discussion

Mr. Wilbur Brown:

Director of Transitional Remedies and Solutions

Mark Muhammad

School of Theology Room: B20

12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm-2:50pm

A Strategic Workshop/Panel Discussion

Racial Profiling/Race in the Sentencing process: Men of Color and The American Criminal Justice System

Michael Curry, Esq.

NAACP/Boston President.

Jack Cole, Lt.  Retired State Police Lieutenant, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Dr. Fred Allen

Dr. B. J. Smith: National Action Network

Boston University Law Auditorium

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Mothers/

Women Behind Bars and Mass Incarceration:  The Destruction of Minority Families

Andrea Goode-James:

Ms. Jean Fox: Ex. Dir., Aid to Incarcerated Mothers

Rev. Clovis Turner:

Ms. Tina Williams:

Dr. Linda Daniels:

School of Theology Room: B19

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Immigration, Detention and Mass Incarceration

Trina Jackson: Co-coordinator and co-creator of NIAAS: the Network for Immigrants and African-Americans in Solidarity in Boston

Dumas F. Lafontant: Vice-President of the Board of Directors for Enfant Haitien Mon Frere.

Antonio P. Castro Aranda: Pro Bono Detention Manager at PAIR. He coordinates the Pro Bono AILA Panel, in collaboration with the Boston Immigration Court.

Dimple Rana: Activist and Organizer

Patricia Montes: Executive Director of Centro Presente, a member-driven, state-wide Latin American immigrant organization.

Law School Room: 520

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Zero Tolerance and the “School to Prison Pipeline”: Addressing Inter-generational System involvement of Juveniles

Dr. Frank Afflito:

Bay State College, Support for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Andrew Polk, Esq.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Daniel J. Losen, Esq.

Director: The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at The Civil Rights Project: UCLA

Matt Cregor, Esq.

Assistant Counsel

Safe Schools Strategist

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Law School Room: 570

2:50pm- 3:00pm

Break

Break

Break

3:00pm-4:30pm

Workshop-Training 

Training for Reentry Professionals - Empowering Prisoners through Emotional Literacy Training: A Key to Staying Out of Prison

Robin Casarjian:

Mr. Gary Little: SPAN, Inc.

Dr. Jennifer Drew

Rev. Laura Ahart

Law School Room: 520

Workshop/Panel Discussion

Mass Incarceration, Reentry, Recidivism: Consequences and Solutions

Dr. William Morrissette:

Dept. Chair for Social & Human Services,  Bay State College

Mr. Daniel Cordon:

Mr. True-See Allah: The Nation of Islam: Muhammad Mosque #11.

BULA

Workshop

Healing for Victims and

Communities

Dr. Linda Daniels:

Louise Brown:  Peace Inst.

Linda Jackson: Director, Healing for Family and Community, Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections.

 Rev. Kim Odom

Law School Room: 570

Workshop:

Post-Prison Care with Faith and Spirituality for former Prisoners:

Mr. Douglas Lomax

 Rev. Clovis Turner

Rev. Tim Allan

Min. Randy Muhammad: The Nation of Islam: Muhammad Mosque #11.

Law School Room: 620

Strategic Discussion

No Way Out: Perspectives on Forced Sexual Relations behind Prison Walls & Its Impact on HIV/AIDS in the Black Community

Dr. Mike Weaver: Researcher, Evaluator, Educator, Filmmaker, Author and Social Entrepreneur Assistant Professor: Temple University

Cynthia Totten, Esq.:

Just Detention International

School of Theology Room: B19

4:30pm-4:35pm

Break

4:35pm-5:45pm

Strategic Session on Concluding Conference Working Document

Formulating Conference Position Statement

Collection of Evaluation Forms

BULA

 5:45pm-6:00pm

6:15pm-7:00pm

Break

7pm:

Closing Ceremony and

Concert

Main Speaker:

Mr. Joe Madison:

Civil Rights Activist, Journalist, Television Commentator

Boston Univ. Law Sch. Aud.