Hamline University Center for Justice and Law & Mitchell Hamline School of Law present

Barriers to Reentry

This full-day conference will discuss the barriers of reentry formerly incarcerated individuals experienced & explore possible solutions.

5.0 hours of continuing education credits are available

Get your tickets here – bit.ly/CJLreentry

 

Our keynote speaker, Reginald Dwayne Betts, transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of Yale Law School. He has written three acclaimed collections of poetry, the recently published Felon, Bastards of the Reagan Era and Shahid Reads His Own Palm.

 

Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration

9:00 – 10:00 am: Introduction & Overview of the problem

Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General

Dr. Jillian Peterson, Professor at Hamline University

Jon Geffen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

10:00 – 11:00 am: Impacted Individual Panel with 

Moderator Kevin Reese, Voices for Racial Justice

Naomi Gaines-Young, Author

Chris O’Donnell

11:15 – 12:15 pm: Government Panel 

John Choi, Ramsey County Attorney

Rep. Raymond Dehn, Minnesota House of Representatives

Paul Schnell, Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch Keynote with Reginald Dwayne Betts

1:45 – 3:15 pm: Solutions panel

Moderator Emily Baxter, Executive Director of We Are All Criminals

Emily Turner, Founder of All Square

Otis Zanders, Ujamaa Place

3:30 – 5:00 pm: Reception – SEEN Exhibit

 

If you have any questions, please email us at cjl@hamline.edu