2017 Behind Bars Conference Schedule

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Behind Bars: Ethics and Human Rights in U.S. Prisons Conference Presenters

Thursday, November 30, 2017
201 Tosteson Medical Education Center, 
260 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA

Time Description Speakers
8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast  
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

J. Wesley Boyd
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Righting Wrongs: Lessons learned from one lost life Danielle Allen
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break  
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Contract Prisons and Contract Health Care: What do we know? Marc Stern
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Life During and After Incarceration: Two personal experiences
  • George Powell
  • Joli Sparkman
  • Bethany House
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where Rights Meet Reality: Prison health care Joel Thompson
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch  
1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Achieving Just and Respectful Care for Pregnant Women in Prison
3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break  
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Sexuality, Gender Identity & Sexual Abuse
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Networking Reception  

Friday, December 1, 2017
Armenise Building, D-Amphitheater,
210 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA

Time Description Speakers
7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast  
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Psychiatric Care in U.S. Prisons and Jails: Challenges and opportunities Debra Pinals
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Psychopathological Effects of Solitary Confinement
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break  
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. Health Care Workers in Prisons
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Lunch  
  Transition to Tosteson Medical Education Center,
260 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA		  
12:45 - 2:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:  
  Asylum Seekers in Detention – TMEC 328
  The Social and Spiritual Injustices of Prison – TMEC 306
  Getting Beyond Bars: A look at prison reentry – TMEC 250
  Children and Adolescents in Juvenile Detention – TMEC 209 Louis J. Kraus
12:45 - 4:45 p.m. Plenary Discussion: Strategies and Next Steps  

Wednesday, November 29, 6:15 p.m.
Pre-Conference Event 13th Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion Armenise Building, D-Amphitheater, 
210 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA

  • Rahsaan D. Hall, Director, Racial Justice Program, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
  • Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor, Department of History and African American Studies, Harvard University
  • Moderated by: Patrick Smith, Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Conference attendees are encouraged to attend. The screening is free and open to the public, but separate registration is required.
Registerfor the film screening now!

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