Tag: prisons
SubscribeHenderson Center symposium reimagines justice
March 25, 2013:
Problems of racism and violence are exacerbated by supersized prisons and misguided police practices, according to scholars, activists and community leaders gathered for the annual symposium of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law.
Law duo plays role in Supreme Court prison-overcrowding case
June 20, 2011:
Berkeley Law’s Barry Krisberg and Jeanne Woodford recently served as experts in the legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population by 33,000. Krisberg is research director at the Earl Warren Institute, where Woodford — former head of the California prison system — is a senior fellow.
