Roundtable on Prisons, Policing, and Community Responses

June 10, 2015 – Segment 2

We host a roundtable discussion on recent headlines involving violence, prison, policing, and community solutions, including: the suicide last Saturday of Kalief Browder, who spent 3 years without trial as a teenager on Rikers Island before his release in 2013; the freeing of Angola 3 member Albert Woodfox after 43 years in solitary confinement; violence in Baltimore; and initiatives in Sandtown. Our panel of guests includes: Maryland State Delegate Jill P. Carter (District 41); JC Faulk, community organizer and community development consultant; Mia Loving, curator and founder of Invisible Majority, a creative community incubator; and Michael Scott, chief equity officer/president and co-founder of Equity Matters.

Written by Marc Steiner

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