With NLG member David Bliven, advocate Sharonne Salaam and Central Park Five exonoree Yusef Salaam.
Link to registration: https://www.leftforum.org
summary: Hundreds - if not many thousands - of people are released from jail each year after having been wrongfully incarcerated. Yet many states - New York included - release them with absolutely no compensation for having been wrongly jailed. Many then need to deal with the reverberating effects of incarceration, including psychological trauma, difficulty gaining employment & housing, re-establishing familial ties, etc. We will discuss ways to organize for criminal justice reforms - both to prevent wrongful incarceration as well as to compensate its many victims.