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Spring 2002
Death
Penalty
Week of March 4-7 |
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Rescheduled
for March
11: William Nieves
- released from 8 years on death row in October 2000.
March
7: Judge Tom
Raup will discuss death penalty sentencing laws and be joined
on the panel by York County Senior Judge Emanuel Cassimatis and
Tom Wilson, who served as foreman of a jury for a capital case.
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Ethical Issues
in Business
March 13
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Inmates from Allenwood
Federal Prison Camp will discuss their descent from high-level
business professionals to white collar
criminals and the impact of their ethical mistakes
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| Alternatives
for Sentencing and Incarceration
Academic
Center AC303
March 18
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There will be a panel discussion of alternatives to incarceration.
The panel will include William Love, deputy secretary of the
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; Greg Smith, director of Transitional Living
Center, Inc.; and Barbara Toews-Shenk of the PA Prison Society,
who will speak on Restorative
Justice. She will also be available to visit classrooms.
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Outside
the Walls
to be held at Clarke Chapel - 7:30 p.m.
March 26
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Tuesday, March 26: Presentation by Melissa
Whaley/ Sam Chamberlain called Outside the Walls,
an interdisciplinary multi-layered performance of dance, music,
video and stories that explores the complexity of the lives of
those whose loved ones have been in prison. Sam was incarcerated
for six years on a marijuana charge and will also give a half-hour
talk on that experience.
A
campus dance group will participate and the lighting design class
of Jaye Beetem's will do the lighting and staging.
Review
of the Presentation by Tina Campion
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The
Larry Strauser Memorial Lecture: "Women in Prison"
April 2 |
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Monique
Hoeflinger, Esquire, the founding director of the Women’s Prison
Project based in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be speaking about the
issues of women in prison. The goals of the project are education
and empowerment of women prisoners, legal advocacy community
outreach to advocates
for women, and coalition building.
The project is committed to developing new ways of
addressing the gendered dimension of imprisonment
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Juvenile
Justice
April 8 |
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Presentation by Tom Bernard
and a panel discussion on juvenile justice issues. Ed Robbins,
local juvenile parole supervisor, and Lycoming County Judge
William Kieser, who specializes in juvenile cases will be among the panel members.
Chris Ruhlman, President of the Lycoming College Criminal Justice Society, and
now doing an internship with Robbins, will also participate.
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