Save the Date: November 17, 2011. CJCJ Executive Director Daniel Macallair will be speaking at California’s Prisons: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, hosted by Capitol Weekly and the University of California. The full-day conference will feature four panel discussions centered on the challenges of California’s penal system and correctional issues.
Other speakers include: Don Novey, former head of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association; Jim Gomez, former state prisons director and now head of the California Association of Health Facilities; Craig Brown, former director of the state Finance Department and former head of the California Youth Authority; Jeanne Woodford, former warden of San Quentin Prison and former state prisons director; Theresa Hughes, president and founder of Wings for Life; Vanessa Nelson, co-director of the Life Support Alliance, a parole advocacy group; Charles Pattillo, executive director of the California Prison Industry Authority; David Warren, a long-time advocate for inmate rights in the Capitol and CDCR; and UC Davis’ Sasha Abramsky, author of “American Furies: Crime, Punishment and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment.”
The Conference will take place at the Crest Theatre, 10th and K Streets, Sacramento, CA 95814. For more information see: http://prn.to/oKPZe2
Addendum: To view the panel on reforms and access videos of the entire conference, please visit: http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/3158