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Public invited to "Beyond Prison: A New Justice Paradigm" a conversation with Laura Magnani and Bonnie Kerness, Saturday, September 15, 1:30-5:00 p.m.
What can we do about our failed prison system? What would a new healing justice paradigm look like? These are among the questions which Laura Magnani and Bonnie Kerness will address Saturday, September 15, 1:30-5:00 p.m. in the Barn at Pendle Hill. This "afternoon conversation" is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.
Laura Magnani is Assistant Regional Director for Justice for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Pacific Mountain Region. Involved in criminal justice work for over 35 years, Laura is the author of America’s First Penitentiary: A Two Hundred Year Old Failure (2000), and co-author of Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System (2006). She is a member of the Berkeley Friends Meeting in California.
Bonnie Kerness has an extensive background in human rights and anti-racism work. She coordinates the Prison Watch Project of the AFSC and has advocated for those in prison, speaking out against human rights abuses in U..S prisons as violations of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
The United States imprisons more than 2 million men, women, and children - the largest percentage of its population of any nation on earth, yet recidivism rates show the prison system to be a practical as well as a moral failure. Laura Magnani and Bonnie Kerness will facilitate a visioning of a new justice paradigm, a sharing of our successes and insights into how we can move towards a paradigm based on healing justice and transformation. This conversation is ideal for those who have some familiarity with the prison system.
For more information call ext. 3, (610) 566-4507.
