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What 3 ted talk topics did I consider?

-Alternative Energy -Senses -Crime

What did I pick? Crime.

Why? I believe that our criminal justice system is fundamentally flawed.

Speakers -Kym Worthy What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit -Phillip Atiba Goff How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing -Jarrell Daniels What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other -Melvin Russell I love being a police officer, but we need reform

More Speakers -Marlon Peterson Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform -Will Potter The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before -Alice Goffman How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison Alternative speakers that are not on TedTalks -Mariska Hargitay (has a documentary about untested rape kits backlog, star of Law and Order Special Victims Unit)

Articles about Criminal Justice Reform -Why Prison Reform Matters in America Jeremiah Mosteller, Criminal Justice Reform Policy Liaison

-How incarcerating women fuels our mass incarceration crisis ACLU

Common Theme How can we fix/improve our criminal justice system? How do we hold law enforcement more accountable.

Overarching Ideas Exploring what causes racism, sexism, greed, How can we prevent those as factors in our criminal justice system?

Questions that can be answered How did we get here? By putting minorities and women on the backburner for justice.

Why is our prison population so big?

Our criminal justice system is about making money, not about prevention or recovery.

What do we do to avoid reverting back to how it is now? We need to rally for criminal reform and set a common goal to put in checks and balances on law enforcement and abolish private prisons.

Questions that can be asked -Why are we not providing support to impoverished kids facing challenges?

-Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time?

-Can we imagine something better?

-Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery, prevention, civic inclusion, rather than punishment?

-How can we end mass incarceration?

-How can we insure justice for all victims?

Who? People go to conferences about topics they are passionate about to find out what other people are doing about the topics.

Political science majors, Sociologists, Activists, Victims of Sexual Abuse, People who want to make a change in the world. They will all come to this event to learn about what they can do to stop abuse of power in our criminal justice system.

They can expect to leave with newfound perspectives on the state of our current justice system.

Where?

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Convention Center In 2016, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed into law the Justice Reinvestment Act, which advances research-based sentencing and corrections policies.

Developed with bipartisan support, the bill is projected to cut the state’s prison population by almost 1,200 inmates and save an estimated $80.5 million over 10 years, says the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Visual Concept 1 Title Preconviction Tagline When our preconceived notions put people in cages Statement This conference focuses on the different bias and racial prejudices that lead impoverished children from their bassinets to behind bars. What can we do to prevent this abuse of authority?

3 Words Tomorrow, Change, Now.

Visual Concept 2 Title Backlog Tagline What makes us disregard what other people are going through? What makes us put their case on a shelf?

Statement This conference focuses on the victims of sexual assault and what we can do to bring justice.

How can we prevent a future backlog of rape cases?

3 Words Survivors, Objectified, Degraded.

Visual Concept 3 Title Abandoned Tagline Who wins when we convict millions of people in the US every year? The government.

Statement This conference focuses on for profit prisons, the incentive they give to police to convict people of color, and the horrifying conditions they experience behind bars.

3 Words Cold, Dark, Empty

Visual Concept 4 Title Jury without our peers Tagline When people convict someone with little to no evidence, who pays the price for unfair judgement?

Statement This conference focuses on settlements, or lack there of for wrongfully convicted people. What kind of toll can this have on someone’s entire rest of their life?

3 Words Isolation, Frustration, Family

Visual Concept 5 Title Crime=/=Criminal Tagline Can we separate our bias of those who have served time, with our perception of their work ethic.

Statement This conference focuses on life after prison, the struggle to find a job that isnt minimum wage or involved with crime. The hypocrisy of the mindset of ‘rehabilitation’ when our prison system is about punishment, not learning how to be incorporated into non illegal practices.

3 Words Regret, Time, Career.

Visual Concept 6 Title Victimless Tagline If you didn’t hurt anyone, it’s not evil.

Statement Nonviolent offenders, for petty drug crimes are still in prison even in the states where marijauna is legal. How can one person be profiting off of designer weed when another has spent years in prison, with no hope of getting out or having their record expunged.

3 Words Agriculture, Waste, Injustice

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Who? Naomi Patterson Activist Age 26 Baltimore, Maryland Apartment Leopard Gecko Last movie, Serving Life (2011) Trader Joes

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Kym Worthy Prosecutor of Wayne County

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Kym Loren Worthy is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008. Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, becoming the first African-American special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green.

Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is by far the busiest in Michigan. There are 83 counties in Michigan, but Worthy’s office handles 52 percent of all felony cases in Michigan and 64 percent of all serious felony cases that go to jury trial. In 2013, Worthy sued Wayne County, alleging that Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano had provided her with an insufficient budget to fulfill her duties as outlined in the Michigan State Constitution. In June 2014, Worthy backed Warren Evans in his successful race to oust then Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano in the Democratic Primary. Worthy is currently working on resolving a massive backlog of unprocessed rape test kits in Detroit. In 2009, one of her assistants discovered a stockpile of kits sitting in a warehouse that the Detroit Police Department had used as an overflow storage facility for evidence. Eventually, over 11,431 rape test kits -- some of which had been sitting unprocessed for a decade or more -- were discovered in the warehouse. In one case, a 2002 rape was linked to a man who was incarcerated for three murders he committed in the seven years after the rape.

What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits -- some dating back to the 1980s -- were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits.

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Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

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12:30pm Lunch

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Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

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3pm Second Speaker

Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

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5pm Third Speaker

Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

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Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

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Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

How you can get more involved in reform In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits -- some dating back to the 1980s -- were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits.

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Kym Worthy Prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan

Why you should listen Kym Loren Worthy is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008. Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, becoming the first African-American special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

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6:30pm Dinner

Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

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3pm Second Speaker Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

5pm Third Speaker Kym Worthy - What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

8pm Second Speaker Jarrell Daniels - What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

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11am - Kym Worthy What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

3pm- Jarrell Daniels What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

5pm - Phillip Atiba Goff How can we improve policing?

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

Friday, March 27th

11am - Melvin Russell I love being a police officer, but we need reform

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Sweetgreen

3pm - Marlon Peterson Am I not Human?

5pm - Will Potter The secret U.S. Prisons you’ve never heard of before.

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

7:30pm - Alice Goffman How we’re priming some kids of college and some for prison

Kym Worthy Prosecutor of Wayne County speaking at 11am

About the speaker Kym Loren Worthy is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008. Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, becoming the first African-American special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits – some dating back to the 1980s – were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits.

Jarrell Daniels Justice and education scholar, activist speaking at 3pm

About the Speaker Jarrell Daniels collaborates with policy makers, civil servants, academics and community organizers to create a new vision for the criminal legal system -- shaping policies that help individuals, families and communities thrive. At Columbia University, he is an Open Society Youth Activist Fellow, Justice-in-Education Scholar, program manager of the Justice Ambassadors Youth Council and a member of the Formerly Incarcerated Reintegration Science Training (FIRST) program. His primary focus is bringing policy makers together with community members to work across differences to improve social challenges, particularly among youth. In his work with young people, he explains the extent to which mass incarceration and criminalization impacts minority communities.

What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other A few weeks before his release from prison, Jarrell Daniels took a class where incarcerated men learned alongside prosecutors. By simply sitting together and talking, they uncovered surprising truths about the criminal justice system and ideas for how real change happens. Now a scholar and activist, Daniels reflects on how collaborative education could transform the justice system and unlock solutions to social problems

Phillip A. Goff Justice Scientist speaking at 5pm

About the Speaker Self-proclaimed “justice nerd� Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff devotes himself to understanding how people think and talk about racism in order to prevent racist behavior -- particularly in policing. He identifies the need to shift how we define racism: not as a defect of character, but rather a pattern of behaviors that are measurable and changeable.

Goff is the president and cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that diagnoses the roots of disparate policing in order to eliminate them. As a professor, mediator and translator, Goff helps communities and law enforcement understand each other and address problems that have for centuries felt unsolvable.

How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing When we define racism as behaviors instead of feelings, we can measure it -- and transform it from an impossible problem into a solvable one, says justice scientist Phillip Atiba Goff. In an actionable talk, he shares his work at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that helps police departments diagnose and track racial gaps in policing in order to eliminate them. Learn more about their data-driven approach -- and how you can get involved with the work that still needs to be done.

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Schedule Thursday, March 26th

11am - Kym Worthy What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

3pm- Jarrell Daniels What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

5pm - Phillip Atiba Goff How can we improve policing?

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

Friday, March 27th

11am - Melvin Russell I love being a police officer, but we need reform

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Sweetgreen

3pm - Marlon Peterson Am I not Human?

5pm - Will Potter The secret U.S. Prisons you’ve never heard of before.

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

7:30pm - Alice Goffman How we’re priming some kids of college and some for prison

Kym Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor

About the Speaker Kym Loren Worthy is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008.

Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, becoming the first African-American special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

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What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits – some dating back to the 1980s – were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits.

Jarrell Daniels Justice and education scholar, activist

About the Speaker Jarrell Daniels collaborates with policy makers, civil servants, academics and community organizers to create a new vision for the criminal legal system -- shaping policies that help individuals, families and communities thrive. At Columbia University, he is an Open Society Youth Activist Fellow, Justice-in-Education Scholar, program manager of the Justice Ambassadors Youth Council and a member of the Formerly Incarcerated Reintegration Science Training (FIRST) program. His primary focus is bringing policy makers together with community members to work across differences to improve social challenges, particularly among youth. In his work with young people, he explains the extent to which mass incarceration and criminalization impacts minority communities.

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What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other A few weeks before his release from prison, Jarrell Daniels took a class where incarcerated men learned alongside prosecutors. By simply sitting together and talking, they uncovered surprising truths about the criminal justice system and ideas for how real change happens. Now a scholar and activist, Daniels reflects on how collaborative education could transform the justice system and unlock solutions to social problems

Phillip A. Goff Justice Scientist

About the Speaker Self-proclaimed “justice nerd� Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff devotes himself to understanding how people think and talk about racism in order to prevent racist behavior - particularly in policing. He identifies the need to shift how we define racism: not as a defect of character, but rather a pattern of behaviors that are measurable and changeable.

Goff is the president and cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that diagnoses the roots of disparate policing in order to eliminate them. As a professor, mediator and translator, Goff helps communities and law enforcement understand each other and address problems that have for centuries felt unsolvable.

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How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing When we define racism as behaviors instead of feelings, we can measure it -- and transform it from an impossible problem into a solvable one, says justice scientist Phillip Atiba Goff. In an actionable talk, he shares his work at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that helps police departments diagnose and track racial gaps in policing in order to eliminate them. Learn more about their data-driven approach -- and how you can get involved with the work that still needs to be done.

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Thursday, March 26th

11am - Kym Worthy What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

3pm- Jarrell Daniels What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

5pm - Phillip Atiba Goff How can we improve policing?

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

11am - Melvin Russell I love being a police officer, but we need reform

Friday, March 27th

12:30pm - Lunch Catered by Sweetgreen

3pm - Marlon Peterson Am I not Human?

5pm - Will Potter The secret U.S. Prisons you’ve never heard of before.

6:30pm - Dinner Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

7:00pm - Alice Goffman How we’re priming some kids of college and some for prison

Kym Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor

About the Speaker Kym Loren Worthy is the first African-American woman to serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008.

Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office in 1984. She served in this position for ten years, becoming the first African-American special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

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What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits – some dating back to the 1980s – were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits.

Jarrell Daniels Justice and education scholar, activist

About the Speaker Jarrell Daniels collaborates with policy makers, civil servants, academics and community organizers to create a new vision for the criminal legal system -- shaping policies that help individuals, families and communities thrive. At Columbia University, he is an Open Society Youth Activist Fellow, Justice-in-Education Scholar, program manager of the Justice Ambassadors Youth Council and a member of the Formerly Incarcerated Reintegration Science Training (FIRST) program. His primary focus is bringing policy makers together with community members to work across differences to improve social challenges, particularly among youth. In his work with young people, he explains the extent to which mass incarceration and criminalization impacts minority communities.

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What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other A few weeks before his release from prison, Jarrell Daniels took a class where incarcerated men learned alongside prosecutors. By simply sitting together and talking, they uncovered surprising truths about the criminal justice system and ideas for how real change happens. Now a scholar and activist, Daniels reflects on how collaborative education could transform the justice system and unlock solutions to social problems

Phillip A. Goff Justice Scientist

About the Speaker Self-proclaimed “justice nerd� Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff devotes himself to understanding how people think and talk about racism in order to prevent racist behavior particularly in policing. He identifies the need to shift how we define racism: not as a defect of character, but rather a pattern of behaviors that are measurable and changeable.

Goff is the president and cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that diagnoses the roots of disparate policing in order to eliminate them. As a professor, mediator and translator, Goff helps communities and law enforcement understand each other and address problems that have for centuries felt unsolvable.

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How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing When we define racism as behaviors instead of feelings, we can measure it -- and transform it from an impossible problem into a solvable one, says justice scientist Phillip Atiba Goff. In an actionable talk, he shares his work at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that helps police departments diagnose and track racial gaps in policing in order to eliminate them. Learn more about their data-driven approach -- and how you can get involved with the work that still needs to be done.

Melvin Russel Lieutenant Colonel

About the Speaker Lt. Colonel Melvin T. Russell is Chief of the Community Partnership Division, Baltimore Police Department. Russell joined The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) in 1979 as a police cadet and graduated from the BPD academy in 1981 as the first and only African American class valedictorian.

Russell worked both as a uniform patrol and then an undercover officer for 20 years before re-emerging as an Eastern District Lieutenant in 2007. In this position, Russell turned the worse midnight patrol shift in the city to the best in 3 months and was promoted to Major of the Eastern District

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I love being a police officer, but we need reform We’ve invested so much in police departments as protectors that we have forgotten what it means to serve our communities, says Baltimore Police officer Lt. Colonel Melvin Russell. It’s led to coldness and callousness, and it’s dehumanized the police force. After taking over as district commander in one of Baltimore’s toughest neighborhoods, Russell instituted a series of reforms aimed at winning back the trust of the community and lowering the violent crime rate. “Law enforcement is in a crisis,” he says. “But it’s not too late for all of us to build our cities and nation to make it great again.”

Marlon Peterson Human justice advocate

About the Speaker Marlon Peterson is the host of the podcast, Decarcerated, which highlights the journeys of resilience, redemption and success of formerly incarcerated people.

Since his release from prison in 2009, after serving 10 years, Peterson has spearheaded the creation of two youth development programs in New York City, How Our Lives Link Altogether (H.O.L.L.A!) and Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets (YO SOS). With a focus on gun violence prevention and youth advocacy, both programs have provided programming for hundreds of young people.

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Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a lifetime of irrelevance. While behind bars, Peterson found redemption through a penpal mentorship program with students from Brooklyn. In this brave talk, he reminds us why we should invest in the humanity of those people society would like to disregard and discard.

Will Potter Investigative journalist

About the Speaker Independent journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter is based in Washington, D.C.; his current work examines how whistleblowers and nonviolent protesters are being treated as terrorists.

The author of Green Is The New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, Potter has extensively documented how non-violent protest is slowly being criminalized. His reporting and commentary have been featured in the world’s top media outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, Rolling Stone, El Pais, and Le Monde. He has

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The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated -- even preventing them from hugging their children. Potter, a TED Fellow, shows us who is imprisoned here, and how the government is trying to keep them hidden. “The message was clear,” he says. “Don’t talk about this place.” Find sources for this talk at willpotter.com/cmu

Alice Goffman Urban sociologist

About the Speaker As an undergraduate studying sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Alice Goffman was inspired to write her senior thesis about the lives of the young people living in the historic African-American neighborhood that surrounded the school. She lived side-by-side with a group of young men in one of the US’s most distressed communities, experiencing a troubling and rarely discussed side of urban policing -- the beatings, late night raids and body searches that systematically pit young men against authority.

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How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison n the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions.

In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”

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Break the chains of injustice.

This conference focuses on the victims of sexual assault, wrongfully incarcerated people, and the negligence of our broken criminal justice system.

Our Audience

This conference is for criminologists, activists, law enforcement, professors of criminal law, and the general public. Anyone who wants to understand how to make a difference in our prison system.

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Kym Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor

About the Speaker serve as a county prosecutor in Michigan. She became internationally recognized for prosecuting then Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the beginning of March 2008.

Worthy started as an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne

special assignment prosecutor under Prosecutor John O’Hair. Her most notable prosecution was the trial of Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers in the beating death of Malice Green. Worthy had an over 90 percent conviction rate. From 1994 to January 2004, Worthy was a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court Criminal Division. In 2004, Worthy was appointed by the judges of the Wayne County Circuit Court bench to replace Detroit mayor Mike Duggan, who had resigned to become the head of the Detroit Medical Center.

What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits – some dating back to the 1980s – were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get jus-

11am - Melvin Russell

What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits.

12:30pm - Lunch

Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

3pm- Jarrell Daniels

What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from eachother.

5pm

How can we improve policing?

6:30pm - Dinner

Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

12:30pm - Lunch

Friday, March 27th

Thursday, March 26th

11am - Kym Worthy

Catered by Sweetgreen

3pm - Marlon Peterson Am I not Human?

5pm - Will Potter

The secret U.S. Prisons you’ve never heard of before.

6:30pm - Dinner

Catered by Moes Southwest Grill

7:30pm -

How we’re priming some kids of college and some for prison

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