Elections and Human Rights series: Voting Rights and Incarceration

by Human Rights & Humanitarian Policy Concentration

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Tue, Oct 6, 2020

12:10 PM – 1:10 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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This panel discussion will examine how incarceration affects the exercise of voting rights. Experts will discuss issues including voting in prisons, restoration of voting rights, and the advocacy and political engagement work of formerly incarcerated persons.

For Zoom login information, please register here: http://bit.ly/election_prison

Moderator: Professor Bernard Harcourt, Isidore and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia Law School

Panelists:
-Norris Henderson, Voice of the Experienced in Louisiana
-Jennifer Holmes - NAACP LDF
-Kevin Morris - Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program
-Nicole D. Porter, Director of Advocacy - Sentencing Project

For more information on the series and speakers bios, go to http://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/events/elections-and-human-rights-series-voting-rights-and-incarceration

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