Racial Disparities in Sentencing and Plea Bargains

As a follow up to our successful discussion on police brutality on June 18, please join us for a discussion with Andrea James and Dr. Herman Beavers as they examine systematic racism in prison sentencing and plea bargains.

Andrea James is the Founder and Executive Director of Families for Justice as Healing, the founder of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, a 2015 Soros Justice Fellow, and the author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration. Andrea worked within the criminal justice system for more than 25 years, from her days as a youth worker, to her work as a criminal defense attorney. She is a 2016 recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work to reform the nation's criminal justice system.  

Herman Beavers has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1989 and is Director of Civic…