by STOPMAX Conference | 05.30.2008

Friday and Saturday 8 AM to 11 PM, Sunday 8 AM – 1 PM, Temple University Student Activity Center, 13th and Montgomery Streets.

The conference will raise public awareness on the use of extended solitary confinement, racism and other human rights abuses in U.S. prisons.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, human rights activist, former boxer and exoneree from a triple life sentence, is a featured speaker along with poet, teacher, and former Supermax prisoner Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Terry Kupers M.D, psychiatrist, author, and expert witness in several class action law suits on the quality of mental health services inside control unit prisons and jails. Laura Whitehorn former prisoner of isolation and editor of POZ magazine. (MORE INFORMATION)

The American Friends Service Committee's National STOPMAX 2008 Conference

 

Friday, May 30, 2008 – Sunday, June 1, 2008

 

Friday and Saturday 8 AM to 11 PM, Sunday 8 AM – 1 PM

 

Temple University Student Activity Center, 13^th and Montgomery Streets

 

The conference will raise public awareness on the use of extended solitary confinement, racism and other human rights abuses in U.S. prisons.

 

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, human rights activist, former boxer and exoneree from a triple life sentence, is a featured speaker along with poet, teacher, and former Supermax prisoner Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Terry Kupers M.D, psychiatrist, author, and expert witness in several class action law suits on the quality of mental health services inside control unit prisons and jails. Laura Whitehorn former prisoner of isolation and editor of POZ magazine.

 

During the three-day conference families of prisoners, former prisoners, and allies will benefit from networking, skills-building, and resource sharing. The program includes an array of interactive workshops, panels, films, presentations and performances. Attendees will work on creating strategies to oppose and abolish inhumane practices in prisons.

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