Protect Your People: Challenging Mass Incarceration Together

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This Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event celebrates the release of the book "Protect Your People: Challenging Mass Incarceration Together." The event will bring together author Raj Jayadev with local participatory defense organizers Heather Lewis, Executive Director of the Reuniting Family Bail Fund, and Justine "Taz" Moore, Director of Training at the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. In conversation with Brooklyn Law School Professor Jocelyn Simonson, these speakers will discuss the innovative storytelling techniques of groups of people who have changed the outcomes of criminal cases by intervening collectively through "participatory defense."

Who: The Center for Criminal Justice
When: 6:00-7:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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