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Week Against Mass Incarceration
March 1, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
UNC School of Law’s chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association and American Constitution Society present programming for the 2021 Week Against Mass Incarceration.
Monday, March 1
- Emancipate NC Pro Bono Project: Scorecards for Police Accountability 12pm-2pm
- Join us to help create police accountability scorecards with data from local police departments for Emancipate NC
- Movement Lawyering in NC Panel from 7pm-8pm
- Moderated by Sloan Taylor, UNC BLSA
- Speakers include:
- Dawn Blagrove, Emancipate NC
- Kerwin Pittman, Emancipate NC
- Whitley Carpenter, Forward Justice
- Mark Dorosin, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Tuesday, March 2
- Intersection of Mass Incarceration and Civil Legal Services Panel from 12pm-1pm
- Moderated by Professor Kathryn Sabbeth, UNC Law
- Speakers include:
- Siya Hegde, Bronx Defenders
- Professor Erika Wilson, UNC Law
- Jen Story, Advocates for Children’s Services
- (we may have another exciting speaker for this panel!)
Wednesday, March 3
- Plea Bargaining and the Fourth Amendment Panel from 12pm-1pm
- Moderated by Chris Heaney, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services
- Speakers include:
- Professor Joseph Kennedy, UNC Law
- Professor Shon Hopwood, Georgetown Law
- Professor Carissa Hessick, UNC Law
- Professor Thea Johnson, Rutgers Law
Thursday, March 4:
- COVID and Incarcerated People in NC Panel from 12pm-1pm
- Moderated by Professor Barbara Fedders, UNC Law
- Speakers include:
- Kristie Puckett-Williams, ACLU of NC
- Leah Kang, ACLU of NC
- Ben Finholt, NC Prisoner Legal Services
- Zach Tooman, UNC Law
- Film Screening: Judas and the Black Messiah 6:30pm-9:00pm
- The film will be followed by a discussion led by Professor Kerrel Murray
Friday, March 5
- Day of Action
