Date: Thursday, February 19, 11:30 a.m.
Location: East Union
Registration deadline: Tuesday, February 17
Topic: Incarceration in America
Speaker: Kevin Smith, Professor, Political Science
Why does a Black man get seventy years in prison for stealing a tuna sandwich in Texas when he’d face little chance of a life behind bars for filching a lobster roll in Maine? In America, the fact is your liberty—or even your life—is made forfeit not simply because of what you do, but where you do it. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other industrial democracy in the world. We have more ex-prisoners than the entire population of Ireland, and more people with a felony record than the populations of Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Liberia combined. Why did the United States become the world’s biggest jailer? And, just as importantly, what has it done to us? What are the costs—socially, economically, and politically—of having the world’s largest population of ex-prisoners? And what can we do about it?
MEAL CHOICES: Drinks provided in the room for everyone. (Coffee, Tea, and Water)
* Bring your own lunch.
* Purchase lunch at the Union Dining Room (lower level).
Cost: : $10.39, pay by Credit Card for either option.
Option #1: Order at the kiosk outside the dining room for a deli option
Option #2: Go through the meal line in the dining room and choose what you’d like (except for the deli option)
You will be given a to-go container and cup to take to the meeting room. You may want to arrive closer to 11:00 to give yourself some time to get your lunch and get to the meeting room.
If attending the meeting, please register. It assists us to set up with appropriate seating, as well have name badges.
If at the last minute, you find you can attend, you are welcome to walk in without having registered.
If you have questions, contact Tom McFarland, mcgenealogist@gmail.com