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    Policing Black Bodies II: Race and Pretrial Practices

    An important discussion on the ways in which systemic racism manifests itself in the pretrial process and how we can work towards change.
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    Policing Black Bodies: A Discussion on Race and the Criminal Justice System

    This conversation examines the ways in which the chattel slavery system of America’s early history manifests itself in the variety of ways in which Black people are literally and symbolically policed today.
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    Race and the Criminal Justice System Discussion Series

    The events unfolding across our nation today renew a long-standing call for fundamental changes to our nation’s institutions. While today’s cries carry echoes from protests following the deaths of so many Black people killed by police, and the hopes for change from the marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the current story of race, racism, and white privilege in America has its roots firmly planted in over 400 years of history. It is by fully understanding our nation’s legacy of chattel slavery that we can begin to combat our current social structures that perpetuate institutional racism.
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    Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony & Social Science Data: Part I

    Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part I presented by Rahsaan D. Hall, Director, Racial Justice Program, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

    Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
    September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
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    Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony & Social Science Data: Part II

    Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part II presented by Alison Siegler, Clinical Law Professor, University of Chicago Law School

    Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
    September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
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    Race Matters: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice (2017)

    This inaugural Presidential Summit was designed to help practitioners identify and confront issues of racial bias in our courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and yes, even the defense team. Attendees heard from trial lawyers, academics, and formerly incarcerated individuals who offered their personal perspectives, strategies, and ideas on why Race Matters. This program was created to intentionally challenge you to push the envelope on your understanding of and willingness to attack racial bias in the criminal justice system.
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    Racial Disparity Resources

    Additional resources on racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
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    Race and Juvenile Justice

    “Today, 50 years after Gault, youth of color continue to be disproportionately suspended and expelled, arrested, processed in courts rather than diverted, detained in secure facilities and transferred to adult court for prosecution.” -- Professor Kristin Henning, reflecting on racial disparities in the juvenile justice system 50 years after the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the right to due process, including to defense counsel, for juveniles in delinquency proceedings.

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    Race and Sentencing

    The combined impacts of biased policing, discretionary charging decisions, sentencing enhancements, and the continuing impacts of the tough-on-crime movement have created and bolstered a criminal justice system in which people of color, particularly Black people, are more likely to be sentenced to prison and are subject to lengthier periods of incarceration.  
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    Race and Policing

    Racially biased policing takes many different forms, from elevated police presences in the neighborhoods of marginalized communities, to disproportionate street and vehicle stops and searches, to use of force, to outright expressions of racism within some police departments.
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    Race and the Death Penalty

    “Even under the most sophisticated death penalty statutes, race continues to play a major role in determining who shall live and who shall die. Perhaps it should not be surprising that the biases and prejudices that infect society generally would influence the determination of who is sentenced to death.” – Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (1994)

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    Race and Collateral Consequences

    It is legal today to discriminate against individuals with criminal records “in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discrimination against African Americans,” says Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow. “Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of education opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal.”

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    Race and the War on Drugs

    "Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs."

    Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010)
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    Practicing Cultural Humility

    Presented by Gina Pruski, Director of Training and Development, Wisconsin State Public Defender

    Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
    January 10-11, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
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    Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice (2019)

    This 2nd annual event was designed to help practitioners identify and confront issues of racial bias in our courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and yes, even the defense team. Attendees heard from trial lawyers, academics, and formerly incarcerated individuals who offered their personal perspectives, strategies, and ideas on why Race Matters. This program was created to intentionally challenge you to push the envelope on your understanding of and willingness to attack racial bias in the criminal justice system.