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Race, Poverty and Criminal Justice

by Unknown User on 2016-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 in Berea College, Civil Rights / Race Relations | 0 Comments

Professor Stephen Bright

October 20, 2016, 3:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

From debtors’ prisons to the death penalty, race and poverty influence outcomes in the U.S. criminal courts. The criminal courts are the institution least affected by the Civil Rights Movement. Bright, a Yale Law School professor and president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, will examine how sentences imposed by those courts destroy people and communities; and he will also chart hope for the future.

Check out our convocation display located at Hutchins Library!

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Law and Society in the South by John Wertheimer
Call Number: 340.115 W499L 2009
Publication Date: 2009-06-01

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