Justice Education Week
Justice Education Week 2021
Overview
Justice Education Week is a mostly virtual week-long event which runs April 19-24. The hope is to bring awareness to the crisis of incarceration, its human impact, and build support for transformative educational movements in carceral settings and beyond.
Monday: The week kicks off with our keynote by Dr. Angela Davis in a talk titled, “Education Justice: Incarceration, Carceral Education & Abolitionist Pedagogy.”
Tuesday: Events will focus on support for incarcerated and justice-impacted students, including the screening of College Behind Bars followed by a panel discussion.
Wednesday: Will highlight reentry support in our local community for those recently released from jails and prisons.
Thursday: Events will pivot to prison reform and abolitionist movements.
Friday: The focal points include barriers to reentry, including a reentry simulation where participants are in the shoes of formerly incarcerated individuals reintegrating.
Saturday & Sunday: The week concludes with a focus on restorative justice by hosting a training on restorative circles.
Angela Davis Keynote
4/19 at 6-7PM
Talk will explore carcerality, its history, and relationship to systemic oppression...
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Unlocking Higher Education for Justice-Involved Students
4/20 at 1PM
Talk presents recommendations student affairs professionals should consider in working with justice-involved college students...
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The Transformative Powers of Higher Education in Prison
4/20 6:00PM-7:30PM
The Student Restorative Justice Initiative (sRJI) will screen the Ken Burns Documentary College Behind Bars followed by a panel discussion.
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Centre County Expungement Clinic
4/21 2PM-5PM
Webinar to provide information and assistance to Centre County residents who are interested in sealing their criminal records...
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Abolitionism is More than a Metaphor
4/22 6PM-7PM
This workshop will focus on Angela Davis' work on prison abolition and what it entails...
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Social Disciplining and the Disorientations of Reentry
4/23 3PM
Discusses the disorientations of reentry for all parties involved...
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Reentry Simulation
4/23 3:30PM
This interactive session will ask participants to assume identities of individuals reentering and simulate the first month of release...
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Restorative Circles Training
4/24 -25 11AM-3PM
Training on restorative circles using a harm-reduction model...
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Community Events Here is where you can find out about the events for Justice Education Week held by the community.
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A Note on Community Events
The events for Justice Education Week include talks from academics, Penn State student organizations, students outside of Penn State, and Centre County, PA community organizations. RJI is excited to provide a forum for those who live and work in Centre County to share the work that they do. While we support these community events, RJI does not explicitly endorse the opinions expressed in any of these talks. Click here for a list of community events. (External to Penn State)
Special thanks to the keynote co-sponsors at Penn State: College of Education, Office of Educational Equity, College of Liberal Arts, History Department, Latina/o Studies, Rock Ethics Institute, African American Studies, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, and sRJI