International Human Rights Day (December)
Civil Death, Incarceration, and Their Effects in the United States (Speaker: Patricia Maulden)
Posted: July 24, 2020 at 12:21 pm, Last Updated: June 3, 2024 at 5:31 pm
Mass conviction, mass incarceration, and mass disenfranchisement currently deprive millions of Americans of civil and voting rights. Civil death, while initially framed as related to a crime or infraction of law, continues to follow the formerly incarcerated to the grave. This presentation examines the backstory of these policies, the historic racial implications, interpretations of human […]
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