http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/limancolloquium2010.htm
The 13th Annual Liman Colloquium, “Imprisoned,” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, March 4–5. This Colloquium will explore the issues raised by the incarceration of more than two million people in the United States.
The event begins on Thursday at 4:15 p.m. The first panel will consider the hardening of prison culture, the rising numbers of supermax facilities, and the increasing use of segregation. Speakers include James Austin (JFA Institute); Sharon Dolovich (UCLA School of Law; Georgetown University Law Center); David Fathi (ACLU National Prison Project); Craig Haney (UC Santa Cruz); and Judith Resnik (Yale Law School). Following this panel will be remarks from Dora Schriro, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction and the former director of the Office of Detention Policy and Planning for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Also speaking will be Ashbel T. Wall, the director of the Department of Corrections in Rhode Island. The evening speakers on Thursday will be focused on the contributions of Clinical Professor Brett Dignam, who has taught the Prison Legal Services clinic at Yale since the early 1990s.
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