Engendering Justice:
Women, Prisons and Change

Panel One
CHALLENGING MYTHS, BUILDING A MOVEMENT
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Gender, race and class help define our notions of "criminality" within a system in which prison and punishment seem a natural, even an inevitable, end. By taking up a number of seemingly disparate threads—from the economics of prison expansion and the war on drugs to gender-based violence and the various failures of current immigration and education policies—noted scholars and activists help us weave an understanding of the ways in which imprisonment has become a normalized part of contemporary society.

PARTICIPANTS:

• Patricia Allard
  Criminal Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice
• Chino Hardin
  Prison Moratorium Project
• Andrea Ritchie
  INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
• Julia Sudbury (Moderator)
  Department of Social Work, University of Toronto; author of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
• Kay Whitlock
  American Friends Service Committee

Panel Two
CHANGING ACTIONS
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What work is being done that tries not simply to reform prisons, but also to change fundamentally the ways in which we think about and approach imprisonment? If we, as a society, expect to move beyond the destructive and dehumanizing cycle of crime and punishment, toward what alternatives for justice might we aim?

PARTICIPANTS:

• Kai Barrow
  Critical Resistance
• Alexander Lee
  Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
• Vivian Nixon
  College and Community Fellowship; Re-Enter Grace Ministries
• Deborah Peterson Small
  Break the Chains
• Ije Ude
  Sista II Sista
• Rebecca Young (Moderator)
  Department of Women's Studies, Barnard College